"Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments."

-- David Sheff

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.”
“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”
“The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
“I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.”
“I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.”
“May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!”
“There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.”
“If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it....”

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