Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Malcolm GladwellTags: behavior cultural legacies
I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there is no road. Perhaps it is time for me to resume my wanderings where I left off as a tropical tramp in the slums of Panama. Perhaps like Ambrose Bierce who disappeared in the desert of Sonora I may also disappear. But after being in all mankind it is hard to come to terms with oblivion - not to see hundreds of millions of Chinese with college diplomas come aboard the locomotive of history - not to know if someone has solved the riddle of the universe that baffled Einstein in his futile efforts to make space, time, gravitation and electromagnetism fall into place in a unified field theory - never to experience democracy replacing plutocracy in the military-industrial complex that rules America - never to witness the day foreseen by Tennyson 'when the war-drums no longer and the battle-flags are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world.'
I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.' I may disappear leaving no forwarding address, but for all you know I may still be walking among you on my vagabond journey around the world."
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Tags: history humanity mankind travel walking hospitality legacies witnessing book-stores mementos shakespeare-and-company wanderings
His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.
Patrick WhiteTags: history legends legacies
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
AberjhaniTags: fear politics civic-duty patriotism courage hope political-philosophy voting americans the-future choosing barack-obama xenophobia legacies famous-quotes gun-violence police-reform police-shootings social-responsibility options republican-national-convention quotes-by-aberjhani savannah-author-aberjhani democratic-national-convention making-choices mitt-romney political-advocacy political-awareness political-responsibility presidential-election presidential-election-campaign social-awareness vision-of-america
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
Criss JamiTags: motivational life inspirational purpose death judgment suffering risk daring failure encouragement leadership sports dare fearless extreme legacies entrepreneurship extreme-sports risk-it risk-it-be-different risky take-the-lead take-the-risk
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