#nfl

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence ↗

— Linda Grant

#politics #death

Mrs Darley, I noticed, always had her corn dolly amidst an arrangement of cornflowers and poppies (albeit they were artificial!). The corn, I was to later understand, represented the God, the red poppies his sacrificial blood and the blue cornflowers his death and this is something I still adhere to today. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #corn-doll #corn-dolls #corn-dolly #cornflower

The past influences everything and dictates nothing. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#past #death

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#life #peace #life

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#i #influenced #part #ventures

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#moral-conflict #education

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

I want to price my next book and adjust it for the coming hyperinflation. So instead of the normal one dollar price, I’ll charge $1,000,000.00. If I sell one copy now I’ll be a happy man, and if I sell a million copies after hyperinflation hits in a few years then I’ll be equally as happy.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hyperinflation #inflation #price #equality

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it. ↗

— Leslie Ford

#influence #money #equality

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. ↗

— Alan Keightley

#influence #truth #experience