#peri

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#american #close #done #even #fear

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#always #between #breeze #comes #cracking

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#caesar #had #his #men #pen

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. ↗

— Mos Def

#each #experiment #i #i believe #i believe the

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. ↗

— Mos Def

#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. ↗

— Mos Def

#experience #life #make #observations #questions

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#lack #living #money #poverty #prosperity

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. ↗

— John Denver

#experience #i #joy #living #performing