The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who’s never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means. — Pico Iyer
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Pico Iyer : Indian Writer
Born: 1957
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has…
A child sees possibilities; an adult sees through the window …
Optimism and Opportunity in Life: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not …
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking…
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when …
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has…
A child sees possibilities; an adult sees through the window …
Optimism and Opportunity in Life: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not …
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking…
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when …
The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake…
If something is shocking without being funny it’s hard to ju…
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its…
White America is tortured by black America’s failure to thri…
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst …
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage,…
One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee…
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time…
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of fr…
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the …
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able t…
I tell people I’m on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muff…
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, r…
I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Sta…
