"The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts."

-- Juho Kusti Paasikivi

#Facts Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.”
“I love interpreting other people's music.”
“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.”
“I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.”
“Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.”
“Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.”
“It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.”
“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.”

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