"We have to admire the world for not ending on us."

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Source : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.281, Random House

Colum McCann

#World Quotes #Admire Quotes

“We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.”
“Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.”
“I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.”

Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”
“Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.”
“Together we will be unstoppable.”
“The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.10, Crown Business
“The end of culture is right living”

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