"You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding."

-- Eric Mazur

#Understanding Quotes #Facts Quotes #Forget Quotes

“We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.”
“There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”

Source : "Nothing Special: Living Zen". Book by Charlotte Joko Beck, 1993.
“Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.”
“Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.”
“I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”
“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.150, Beacon Press
“What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.”

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