#one

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#age #become #creates #generation #greater

If I were alone with my clone, and we were enjoying each others' solitude, I'd have finally have met a man with whom I could hold a conversation consisting entirely of the repetitive response, "Yes, I agree! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#conversation #funny #solitude #funny

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Pericles

#engraved #into #leave #lives #monuments

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#crisis #giving #great #had #history

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#hates #jews #more #necessary #saying

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— Pericles

#fishes #great #great ones #land #little

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#bar #club #go #going #meet

I would kill the clone. That would be my first response. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#first #i #kill #response #would

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. ↗

— John Perkins

#aid #because #book #change #corporations