"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."

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David Korten

#Strong Quotes #Rights Quotes #Fabric Quotes

“I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.”

Source : Neurohypophysial Membrane From a Clinical Standpoint Yale University Press (1969)
“A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.”

Source : "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.
“Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.”
“I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.”
“Itâ€™s really very difficult to understand a woman â€“ actually itâ€™s not she but he who is confused”
“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.”
“I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.”
“So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?”

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