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“Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity”
“After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.”
“I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.”
“Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.”
“There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.”
“The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.”
“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”
“In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own,”

Source : "Scott Simon’s Tweets About Dying Mother Spur Conversation On Public Grief, Death On Social Media" by Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2013.

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