"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."

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Lionel Trilling

#Swimming Quotes #Wind Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been asked if it bothers me that BYU hasn't received the recognition it deserves. Well, BYU's gotten a lot of recognition over the years; I've never felt slighted. I honestly believed that we didn't deserve to be ranked any higher last year.”
“They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.”
“We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness in one generation. The biosphere is understood here as what goes from the biosphere to the depths of the ocean 40 miles where all living beings interact with all chemicals to create a very complex choreography that we call "life on earth". That is biosphere that is our indivisible community.”
“It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.”
“I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.”

Source : "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.
“I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.”
“Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.”

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