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Pangea Day -- in quotes
Pangea Day's fabulous line-up of thought-provoking, inspirational speakers produced no less stellar a collection of memorable quotes and priceless bits of wisdom. A small sampling of what we heard:
"By sharing stories, we've started the process of turning strangers into friends." - Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, TED Prize winner and founder of Pangea Day
"We have a repsonbility to expose ourselves to our world, to see our common humanity, to learn about other people -- not only in times of war, but in times of peace. " - Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and advocate for peace
"When we look at the earth from space, we can see ourselves, our species, in its brave struggle. Yes, we're troubled inhabitants of a small planet, but we're also dreamers of dreams." - Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco
"Humans are -- and must be -- sensitive to differences. But we should find hope in realizing how rich and numerous our commonalities are." - Anthropologist Donald Brown, author of Human Universals
"If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories" - Queen Noor of Jordan
"When we laugh, we change. And when we change, the world changes." -- Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the International Laughter Club
"I feel like a hack... I feel I could be doing more... I feel sexy... I just want to feel alive for the first time in my life... I feel so much of my Dad in me that there isn't room for me." -- A selection of feelings, sampled live from the Internet, by conceptual artist Jonathan Harris
"We have the capacity and tendency to separate 'us' from 'them.' Once established, we're more tolerant to those we call 'us' and more brutal toward 'them.' But increasingly, science shows there's no limit to who we define as 'us.' Eventually, someday, there might not be any more 'thems.'" - Psychologist Robert Kurzban
"How can films change the world? They can't, but the people who watch them can. By changing minds, we change the world." - Actress Cameron Diaz
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Incredible event
"What we fear most will save us in the end"
Thank you to all that made Pangea Day possible. Bravo to Jehan and Chris and Amy and everyone for your courage! For many of us in the world of documentary filmaking, our highest goal is to have our films reach deep into the hearts of our viewers and dance within the confines of their minds long after the screen has gone black. Pangea Day did just this. Over the 4 hours I sobbed, laughed, gasped, winced, smiled and thought to myself maybe just maybe we're really not so far gone.
I believe that plenty of people feel the way the world is heading is in a downward spiral but if we all make a difference in a small way it will make it easy to rise to higher beauty of our earth. I think if we all mad it harder for people who value money by valuing our land and our people we wouldn't have to think so much about the ever rising greed for this almighty dollar.
Continue the spirit of Pangea Day, everyday by visiting and participating in www.SalsaTions.com , showing the best of the world culture.
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I applaud the efforts of the many people who made Pangea Day possible and hope that global peace will be a reality sometime during my lifetime.
However, I must say I was dismayed at the insidious and biased way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was portrayed. It would have been more honest and helpful for the cause to have portrayed the problem as one both sides share as opposed to it being completely the fault of the Israeli "occupation."
It sadly tainted Pangea Day f
very good
Mirai is a journalist, composer and futurist technologies pundit working in Tokyo/London.
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MAY 12th 2008
Subject: Do you believe in the MYTH of TERRORISM?
The word "Terrorism" is easily and irresponsibly banded about as much as "Global Warming" and "Conspiracy Theory" and ultimately is the denizen of the easily led.
Do you believe in the MYTH of TERRORISM?
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For CLC Radio (part of the Student Life/Activity Organization of Student Media Outlets from the College of Lake County, Grayslake Illinois, USA), I have added appropriate links to PangeaDay.org and other film links that can help our students, faculty, staff and administrators participate in something that I know will catch our spirit. For participation, this will be the ultimate challenge - as I think for most schools S- as May 1oth is usually only 1 to 3 days just before Final Exams Week!
Three generations of my family watched the Pangaea Day extravaganza on tv yesterday and this event brought hope to us all.It's a comfort to know that in this televisual age where our differences are stressed and emphasised nightly in "news" bulletins and the military/industrial complex has the ear of our elected officials; there are still enough people who care about the truth and the future of our planet and us as a species, to recognise that the miracle of our existence unites and
its beatiful events the every family and the word, races,and religions,unit in the herath and soul,its amazing pangea day.
Hello to all friends around the globe: My eyes were always open, but not like now. Things must change and we must change them. This is an amazing place to start from and I can't wait for the discussions to continue!
It was an amazing event. I have only 4 channels on my TV but since few days I got 4 more, Planete is among them. I really enjoy the worldwide communion in brotherhood despite the races, the nations, the religions. It was wond