"Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Effort Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Common Quotes

“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
“Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.”

Source : Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.”
“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”

Source : John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“Thatâ€™s what existence means: draining oneâ€™s own self dry without the sense of thirst.”
“I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.”
“We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.”
“During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago”

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