"The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are."

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Source : Source: theundercurrent.org

Flemming Rose

#Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes #Being Different Quotes

“Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.”
“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”
“Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.”
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
“Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind”
“Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.”

Source : Interview with Scott Indrisek, www.believermag.com. October 2006.
“German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.”

Source : "The Line Man: Michael Strahan". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.
“Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.”

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