"You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!"

-- John Taylor Gatto

#Adventure Quotes #Needs Quotes #Exploration Quotes

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke”
“You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Silent Tower”, p.66, Open Road Media
“When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.”
“Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!”
“If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.”

Source : Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”
“You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.”
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”

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