"If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.”
“Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.”
“Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.”

Source : "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.
“I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.”

Source : "Cristin Milioti Walks On". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.
“...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.”
“I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”

Source : A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.”

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