"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care"

-- Dean Kamen

#People Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Answers Quotes

“I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.”
“The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.”
“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.”

Source : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge
“Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
“Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.”

Source : "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
“Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.”
“What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people's lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings.”

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