"Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer."

“Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.”

“I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.”

“Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.”

Source : Aulus Gellius (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aulus Gellius - 'The Attic Nights' (Illustrated)”, p.337, Delphi Classics

“And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence. It's just not something you do. It's an embarrassment. It's a shame. It's a humiliation.”

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“If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.”

“Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

“Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.”

“Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.”