"The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them."

-- Dennis Lehane

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.44
“I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.”
“The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.”
“We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of oneâ€™s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.”
“Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.”
“I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.”
“all communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ...”

Source : Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co
“Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,”

Source : Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

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