"Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: How should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: Who am I, what am I doing?"

-- Alison Gopnik

#Children Quotes #Profound Quotes #People Quotes

“You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.”
“This man can make a horror movie without makeup.”
“My big fish must be somewhere.”
“American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.”
“People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets”
“It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.”
“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”
“The basis of a democratic state is liberty”

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