"Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change."

-- Leon Botstein

#Character Quotes #Resilience Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.”
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
“Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.”
“Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.”

Source : 'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”
“I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.”
“When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.”
“It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.”

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