"It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for."

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Source : Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.29, Nation Books

Jack Newfield

#Brother Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
“Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.”
“So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.”
“Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.”

Source : Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”
“Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.Â The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.Â Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.Â The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.Â The west flares briefly.Â The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.Â There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.”
“Accountability only works if you want it to.”

Source : Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.5, Harvest House Publishers
“After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.”
“Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.”

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