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If you had one piece of knowledge to give to the world, what would it be? |
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Rodrigo Baggio: Be a social entrepreneur. Stop what you’re doing now and reflect about your life. See in your life what you could do to help with the construction of a better world. And do it now, in your profession, in your experience or interest area, do something to transform our society into a better one. Even if they are very small actions, in your neighborhood, in your work, in your school, in your company, in your city or in your country. The important is to start doing something to transform our society with a lot of passion, with a lot of enthusiasm, with the eyes shining. This is one of the most efficient ways to be happy and help with the construction of a better world. |
Sabiha El-Zayat-Erbakan: After al these complicated questions I really ask myself if we have knowledge at all. The knowledge I would possibly like to mediate and to make use of , what I would realize myself, is how pleasing sincerity can be. It’s not boring, it’s exciting and can have a great appeal. |
Sanar Yurdatapan: One single question? If it were so easy? Why should we be here all day long trying to answer 100 questions, and yet we have a lot more to say. |
Santiago Roncagliolo: I think, some book, some novel. Novels in general have done a lot for my life, have improved my life a lot. I think, that’s the best I can offer to the world. It is curious what happens when you make a novel, because on the one hand you escape from the world and on the other hand you create an object for that world, with which the people recognize you as an author, in the same way as they discover you. On the on hand you escape from the world, but on the other hand you expose yourself to it, you expose your emotions and uncover your feelings. I will leave the world various novels behind, when I die. I don’t know whether they will outlast, I don’t know whether they are of any use. I don’t even know whether they will be legible by the moment I die. But I believe that they are worthwhile having left behind in any case, even if they are bad. Having them done has been worthwhile. |
Shaobin Yang: It would be my artistic thoughts and works that I have accumulated for years. It’s my ultimate wish that more people can enjoy my artworks so that the works can have an impact upon the world. by Shaobin Yang |
Sihem Bensedrine: This idea, in my opinion the most important, is that nothing lasts, that nothing is forever, that all those who believed that they had the eternity ahead and well didn't have anything. That, whatever the extent of justice, whatever the length of the time, let it lasts, it always comes to an end, and whatever the arrogance of the greatest who dominate this world, they will end up leaving. |
Simon Retallack: One piece of knowledge to give the world? I think it would be that we know today that we are in grave danger of exceeding the environmental limits of the planet; and that unless we take action now, we are endangering the future of our children and their children, not to speak of the countless other species with which we share this planet. And that represents a greater threat than I think we realize today and a greater threat than our species has ever encountered. And I think we know what the solutions are. They exist and we can act in time; but we need to feel empowered enough to take the measures, to take action into our own hands, to work together to feel that we’re not alone, to have a collective sense of endeavor to address this unprecedented crisis. I suppose another answer would involve me saying--and we know also that if we’re going to have a hope of creating a world in which peace reigns, we need to remember that probably in the end love is the answer, that we need to forgive and insure that we create a world that is one that we would want for ourselves and for our children, their children. |
Sohrab Mahdavi: What was the question? Resistance to authority. Resist authority. |
Song Kosal: If I have one piece of knowledge to give to the world, it would be my experience in the art of smile. by Song Kosal |
Steve Earle: That 99.9% of the time any control I thought I have over anything other than my own actions was an illusion. by Steve Earle |
Sulak Sivaraksa: I would ask people in the world to breathe properly. We think too much, we speak too much, but breathing, it extends our life. We breathe in a lot of anxiety. We breathe in a lot of unhappiness. We breathe in a lot of anger, vengeance. If we learn to breathe properly, we breathe in love, we breathe in peace, then we can change ourselves to have seeds of peace within. With seeds of peace within, we can cultivate something wholesome. We cultivate love, hope, something very positive, overcoming negative element in ourself. And from there on we can build up friendships with others, networking. I think then peace can be a reality, by each of us cultivating peace, and world peace is possible. I think these would be something very important for all of us. This peace of knowledge is free, but usually not talked about, not take seriously. We should take these seriously for our benefit as well as the benefit of all human kind. |
Susan George: Well, that’s a short answer to a short question. I would say power never gives up anything voluntarily. Everything, every advance in human history, every change for the better has to be taken preferably non-violently, preferably through democratic methods. But one of the reasons for violence in the world is that -- what I think to be a truth -- is that power never gives up anything voluntarily. There may be individuals who will do so, but as a class, the powerful never renounce their wealth or their capacity to influence and direct other people’s lives. I like to quote a very great philosopher who said “All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems to have been in every age of the world the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” Now, that come not from Karl Marx but from Adam Smith, the great late 18th century writer on capitalism, sometimes called the father of capitalism, “all for ourselves and nothing for other people.” So if that is indeed as Adam Smith said “the vile maxim of the masters of mankind,” then that is a truth which I would want to communicate to others. I believe it is true; and the corollary to that is that if we want to have a world in which all does not go to ourselves, the masters of mankind, if you like, but to everyone, then we have got to organize and fight and resist. by Susan George |
Swami Pragyapad: Very simple. Be happy. No matter what happens to your life, no matter what the circumstances are, no matter how badly people abuse you, no matter how people criticize you, no matter what happens, whether you’re angry, whether you are hating, whether you are loving, whether people are hating you, whether people are loving you, no matter what happens to you or your life or the circumstances around in your life, just be happy. The moment you are happy, it gives you more energy. The moment you are smiling, it gives you more energy. It gives you more enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the juice of life. The source of enthusiasm is finding that happiness, feeling that happiness within our own self. Keep a smile and don’t allow any situation in your life to take away that smile from you. Just be happy. Don’t worry, be happy. |
Sydney Possuelo: I wish I could say it in a language that everybody understands. And talk about feelings that are common to all men. If I had one advice to give, if I could do it, I would say: don’t ever lose your ability of dreaming. Don’t discourage from your desires of love, brotherhood, freedom and all those values we talked about today. Believe that even alone you can change the world by yourself. Then, you will join another source of this feeling, and this other will join another one, and then this huge chain could make us change the world into something better than it is today. The ability of dreaming, never lose it, although they call you a “Don Quixote”. |
Takashi Kiuchi: I like the entire world to know that nature does not need us. Nature has a perfect design to be sustainable. It is people who destroy the sustainability. I would like everybody to know that people are their natural enemy. Nature is happy if it doesn't have us. And we should know that. It is people who creates all kinds of problems in nature. |
Tamas St. Auby: The connection between the mythology of Adam and Eve and the program of space migration, intelligence increase, life extension. |
Tania Bruguera: What would it be? I think it would be to learn to love well. To learn how to love and to learn it well. Not to be afraid of oneself, not to be afraid of what might be felt and not to be afraid of being vulnerable. I think that if there's something beautiful in life, that's a vulnerable human being. A vulnerable person is one of the strongest things that can exist in the world. I think that a person is strong when he/she is vulnerable because it is a strength impossible to fight against. It is something that comes from very inside, that comes from the center of one's energy and you can not fight against it. It is a battle in which nobody can win you. And well, nothing else, just not to be afraid of being vulnerable. |
Tavis Smiley: Love wins. Love wins. Love wins. It doesn’t always happen overnight. It takes time. But you have to love anyway, give anyway, sacrifice anyway, serve anyway. In the end, love wins. Love wins. Love wins. Love wins. That’s it. by Tavis Smiley |
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