"Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way."

-- Verlyn Klinkenborg

#Opposites Quotes #Development Quotes #World Quotes

“I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.”

Source : "Geithner: We Care About A Strong Dollar, Really" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2009.
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
“If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.”
“Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'”

Source : Halford Edward Luccock (1956). “Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes”
“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.22
“When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant to put evil thoughts into your heart, afraid that you would increase your consideration towards your brother and will make dua for him again.”
“I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.”
“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”

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