"A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb."

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Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

Betty Smith

#Heart Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Two Quotes

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”

Source : Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.
“Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devilâ€™s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devilâ€™s snare.”
“Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter R. Breggin, MD from Aug 27, 2012
“America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there, but I just go and come back, feeling like another singer/songwriter in a sea of thousands of singer/songwriters. I don't really know what "breaking it in America" is or means. I just focus on touring day-by-day, and show-by-show, and see where it goes.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.”
“I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement â€” especially when walking behind it.”
“The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.”
“Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.”

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