"It was always assumed that I would go to college."

-- Paul D. Boyer

#College Quotes

“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
“If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.”
“I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.”

Source : Letter to François-Auguste-René Rodin, c. 1905.
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.”
“The goal is progress, not perfection!”

Source : "Kathy Freston: On How to Become a Veganista". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.
“So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.”
“The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.”

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