"Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth."

-- Johannes Kepler

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“To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.”
“So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.”
“I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.”
“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”
“I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.”
“The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.”
“America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.”
“Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.”

Source : "BigDaddy's Rules: Raising Daughters is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. May 7, 2013.

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