"Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents."

-- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

#Opportunity Quotes #Equality Quotes #Talent Quotes

“I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.”
“I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.”
“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint
“I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”

Source : Quoted in Francis Klagsbrun's TheFirst Ms. Reader We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables (p. 67)
“Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.90, Penguin
“The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.”
“I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.”
“There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."”

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