"When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace."

-- Greg Kinnear

#Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after theyâ€™ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.”
“Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.”

Source : "Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler" by Philipp von Boeselager, Hachette UK, April 16, 2009.
“We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet. I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it." It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves.”

Source : Source: archive.alternativenation.net
“I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"”
“The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.”
“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”
“In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map thatâ€”when properly read and followedâ€”reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.”
“Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.”

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