On putting up walls by Unknown (Gurteen Knowledge)

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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Quotations from Unknown:

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death - 1 would be near birth

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

Unknown

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I'm strong enough to know that people make mistakes.

Unknown

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

Unknown

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Unknown
Bhagvad Gita

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Unknown
Chinese Proverb

When a measure becomes an objective it stops being a good measure.

Unknown

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Unknown

Your responsibility exceeds your accountability.

Unknown

The illiterate of the next decade will not be individuals who cannot read and write, but the ones who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Unknown

Two hydrogen atoms walk into a pub.
One says, "I think I've lost an electron."
The other says "Are you sure?"
The first says, "Yes, I'm positive.

Unknown

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming: "Fuck, what a trip!

Unknown

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