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  • #1
    Nikola Tesla
    “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #2
    Nikola Tesla
    “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #3
    Nikola Tesla
    “What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #4
    Nikola Tesla
    “Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #5
    Eduardo Galeano
    “Solo los tontos creen que el silencio es vacío. A veces para comunicar es mejor callar.”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #6
    Eduardo Galeano
    “I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #7
    Eduardo Galeano
    “Some prisoners spent more than ten years buried in solitary cells the size of coffins, hearing nothing but clanging bars or footsteps in the corridors. . .[they] survived because they could talk to each other by tapping on the wall. In that way they told of dreams and memories, fallings in and out of love; they discussed, embraced, fought; they shared beliefs and beauties, doubts and guilts, and those questions that have no answers.
    When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others. ”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #8
    Eduardo Galeano
    “The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”
    Eduardo Galeano
    tags: suits

  • #9
    Eduardo Galeano
    “The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #10
    Eduardo Galeano
    “Nos podrán quitar las flores, pero nunca la primavera. ”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #12
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #15
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #16
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
    Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

  • #22
    Dorothy Allison
    “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
    Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

  • #23
    Charlie Kaufman
    “Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life. And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it. I don't have any bloody use for it.”
    Charlie Kaufman

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #25
    Graham Greene
    “It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
    Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

  • #26
    “The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.”
    Kai Erikson

  • #27
    Graham Greene
    “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
    Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

  • #28
    “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
    Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • #29
    Eduardo Galeano
    “I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #30
    Eduardo Galeano
    “The Nobodies

    Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping
    poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on
    them---will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down
    yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a
    fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their
    left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right
    foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.

    The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the
    no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life,
    screwed every which way.

    Who are not, but could be.
    Who don't speak languages, but dialects.
    Who don't have religions, but superstitions.
    Who don't create art, but handicrafts.
    Who don't have culture, but folklore.
    Who are not human beings, but human resources.
    Who do not have faces, but arms.
    Who do not have names, but numbers.
    Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police
    blotter of the local paper.
    The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.”
    Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent



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