"We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are."

-- Ming-Dao Deng

#Rocks Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Floating Quotes

“I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.”
“I am not one of the great journalists of my time.”
“Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.”
“To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.”
“I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1839). “The Collected Works: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy”, p.167
“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”

Source : David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.198, Anchor
“Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”

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