"There's always going to be somebody worse off than me"

-- Teri Garr

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe”
“I go to the gym in the morning without any makeup on. Sorry, guys, if you think I'm ugly, but I don't know anybody who goes to the gym with makeup on.”
“How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.”
“If we teach todayâ€™s students as we taught yesterdayâ€™s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
“I love to swim, and I love being near water.”
“So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.”
“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (1909). “The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ...”
“Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But donâ€™t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.”

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