"It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window."

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Source : Wallace Stevens (1966). “Letters”

Wallace Stevens

#Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes #Window Quotes

“Teaching is performance art.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books
“For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.”
“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”
“The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

Source : Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA
“Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.”
“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”
“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.”

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