"I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Order Quotes

“Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'”
“To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.”
“For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.”

Source : Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company
“It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.”

Source : "VISIONS: Malidoma Some". Interview With D. Patrick Miller, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1995.
“I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.”
“The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.”
“When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.”

Source : "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.
“I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.”

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