"When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough."

-- Thomas Boswell

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“The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.”
“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.271
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
“Four years ago, I was thinkingâ€¦ no Olympics, who am I? Probably in â€™04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. Thatâ€™s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didnâ€™t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that weâ€™re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesnâ€™t have to define us as a human being. Thereâ€™s so much more to being human than all of this.”
“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.”
“You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.”
“We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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