"Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go."

-- Emilie du Chatelet

#Love Is Quotes #Self Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.”
“In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.”
“I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.”
“A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.”
“In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.”

Source : Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket
“There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.”
“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
“Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.”

Source : "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

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