"When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful."

-- Robert Nozick

#Plato Quotes #Years Quotes #Brooklyn Quotes

“Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.”
“The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.”
“Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.”
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.”
“Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.”
“I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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