"The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different."

-- Peg O'Connor

#Important Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”
“Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.”
“The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics”
“By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.”
“Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence â€” the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes â€” all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor
“When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."”
“I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.”
“Health food makes me sick.”

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