#ill

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. ↗

— Thomas More

#friends #gave #leaves #love #roses

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#hill #kids #over #think #totally

I will act as if what I do makes a difference. ↗

— William James

#difference #i #i do #makes #will

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy. ↗

— Evo Morales

#allows #before #bolivia #changing #country

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ↗

— Evo Morales

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#attempt #characterization #down #else #i

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#change #changes #driving #fundamentally #human

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#fair #fair shake #i #life #make

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#into #must #naked #well #willing