"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."

-- Rachel McAdams

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fairytale Quotes

“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”
“When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.”
“A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.”
“Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”
“I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.”
“It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.”
“Iâ€™d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasnâ€™t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.”
“Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium.”

Source : "Stepping On Sacred Ground" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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