"I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work."

-- Maya Angelou

#Appreciation Quotes #Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.”
“Survivors can't always choose their methods.”
“Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.”
“Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.”
“Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.”

Source : "President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors". Susan Hockfield's keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Salt Lake City, news.mit.edu. July 15, 2011.
“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
“Creativity is an act of defiance.”
“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”

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