"I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories."

-- Melanie Martinez

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.49, Penguin
“Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
“We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
“The Internet lives where anyone can access it.”

Source : "London computer club is blamed in major 'cybersquatting' case", www.cnn.com. June 1, 1999.
“Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.”

Source : "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.
“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.”
“What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.”
“Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts... by agreeing to this duty.”

Source : Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.19

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