When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
You can’t get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he’s my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‘n’ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.
If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
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