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“We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.”
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“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
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“The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.”
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“A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.”
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“I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.”
Source : "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.
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“Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.”
Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10
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“All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.”
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“Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.”