"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive."

-- Joichi Ito

#Fighting Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'm angry because homophobia is still a thing...”
“Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.”
“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.”
“Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.”
“It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”
“What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.”
“The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.”

Source : "Breyer'S Big Idea" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2005.
“Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.”

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