"Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry and become very good at what was just a hobby. But I think that we shouldn't wait quite that long to develop and look for those parallel interests of ours and not sometimes see them as frivolous and take them a little more seriously, and spend some time and energy and maybe even capital in pursuing them."

-- Darold Treffert

#Thinking Quotes #Roots Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.”
“The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.”

Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub
“Lucifer is God in the public school system”

Source : Song: End of days ft.Block McCloud
“The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.”

Source : Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.
“Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.”
“A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.”

Source : "Clearing Up Some Misconceptions". "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2", www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.
“When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.”
“Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.”

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