"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous."

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Ulrich Beck

#Ideas Quotes #Together Quotes #Way Quotes

“When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.”
“I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together.”
“If you donâ€™t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian languageâ€¦ you canâ€™t chant well. You cannotâ€¦ receive the images of poetry paints for you. Itâ€™s like having peas and no pod.”
“The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.”
“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

Source : Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”
“The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.”
“The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.”
“Only stupid people don't change their minds.”

Source : "The Change in the Administration's Position". Interview with Arnaud de Borchgrave, www.globalpolicy.org. November 11, 1996.

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