"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."

-- Italo Calvino

#Cities Quotes #Giving Quotes #Delight Quotes

“I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.”
“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
“The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like â€œWhat is the significance in the world? How might this change things?”
“You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.”

Source : Source: thebiglead.com
“I have had no professional training.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.”
“To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it. And the structural causes are partially cultural.”
“What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 13, 2009

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