"My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people."

-- Imelda Marcos

#Growing Up Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes #People Quotes

“The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.”

Source : Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig (1979). “Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary”, Avon Books
“It's all about where your mind's at”
“I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.”
“But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.”
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
“If you donâ€™t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand whatâ€™s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.”
“No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't”

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