"It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Children Quotes #Connections Quotes #World Quotes

“I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.”
“Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.”
“By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).”
“In any system, there will be change happening without you.”
“Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.”
“That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.”
“You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk â€“ thatâ€™s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a societyâ€™s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. Thatâ€™s my business. Thatâ€™s everyoneâ€™s business.”
“Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...”

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