“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldShowsMightTurnsNationsSidesPleasureFieldsThis WorldSorrowGayBattleDiseaseOceanDiversityBallsCourtPrisonNotionStrangerTyrannyHospitalsOperaShould IDistressCrowdedFaminePestilenceDebtors Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.” PeopleLittlesReasonLove IsPovertyBabyDiseaseOceanFillingFilling Up Author:Katie Davis
“The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.” TreeDiseaseOceanAskingSeedsWanderDeathless Book:Songs of Kabir Source: Songs of Kabir
“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.” ArtTogetherScienceStarsSidesWonderDiseaseOceanDepthTerrorConquerDesertCommerceBoth SidesInvokeInauguralInaugural AddressWonder Of The WorldInaugural Speech Author:John F. Kennedy
“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.” FirstsLooksMeanWholeFactsEyePovertyWrittenGenerationsDiseaseOceanExtremesHumanitarianContinentsExtreme Poverty Author:Bono
“All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.” NeedsAmericaLevelsDiseaseWasteOceanLowsUnderstoodNuclearRadiationSprinklesNuclear Waste Author:Arthur B. Robinson
“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.” IfsInspirationalHumansChallengesBreakRecordsActivityMountainDiseaseOceanCrossesPerseveranceCoreCuresClimbsHuman Activity Author:James Ramsey Ullman