"My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit."

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Source : Dorothy Height, Height (2009). “Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo”, p.15, PublicAffairs

Dorothy Height

#Mother Quotes #Use Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.”
“I like the transience of Klimt paintings.”
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .”
“When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.”

Source : Song: Somewhere Out There
“We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.”

Source : Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.156, Harper Collins
“A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.”
“You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.”
“I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We would've found some skeletons, we would've found some sort of proof of Bigfoot." So, I didn't believe for a long time, but obviously this is the year we find Bigfoot. And obviously all scientists agree that there's definitely Bigfoot.There's no reason to debate it. It's like debating climate change. There's no reason to debate climate change anymore. There's no reason to debate whether there's Bigfoot. Clearly, the yeti exists.”

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