"I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time."

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Source : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

Jean Kerr

#Civilized Quotes

“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.”
“Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.”
“Here are white men poised to run big ***** businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigâ€”big money, big businesses selling weedâ€”after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”
“The higher they fly the harder they fall.”
“Laughter is higher than all pain.”
“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield
“You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.”
“What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days”

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