"Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do."

-- Elinor Ostrom

#Citizens Quotes #Information Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.”
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer â€” one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going â€” one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
“I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.”
“You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.”
“A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.”

Source : "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.
“Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.”

Source : T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”
“I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.”
“... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.”

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