"As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity."

-- Paul Laffoley

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“We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.”
“I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.”
“In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.”

Source : "60 Seconds With Scott Clifton - One Life To Live", February 11, 2010.
“I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.”
“Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.”
“You have to imagine - for those who are good dancers, maybe they don't have to train as much - but for me at least, not being a very good dancer you have to hit the reset button every week and come in on Tuesday, the day after the live show, and start all over and learn a whole new dance with a whole new set of emphasis. Some weeks, you want to have body doing one thing. The next week, it's a totally different thing. You always have to relearn everything on a weekly basis and it takes a lot of work mentally and physically.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?”

Source : Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.25, Arktos
“When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.”

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