"There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding"

-- John Knowles

#Acceptance Quotes #People Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.”
“I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.”
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”
“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.”
“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”
“There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.”
“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
“The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.”

Source : "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.

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