"At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Garden Quotes #Games Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.”
“...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office...”
“Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.”
“I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific
“At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.”
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
“In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.”

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