"And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family."

-- Rene Cassin

#Children Quotes #Military Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.”
“In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.”
“Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.”
“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.”
“The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.”
“When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.”
“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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