"Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away."

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Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.229, Duke University Press

Cathy Davidson

#Leaving Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.”
“Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement drug...That's one thing no one can ever say about me, you know? That I was a coward and took sports-enhancement drugs, because I was afraid I was going to get my ***** kicked in front of millions of people. So anybody out there who said I never had no heart, at least I wasn't a coward.”
“Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.”
“When you become quiet, it just dawns on you”
“You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.”
“To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.”

Source : "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.
“Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.”

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