"why are we so monumentally slow?"

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

“We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.”
“[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.”
“[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.”
“Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.”
“I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.”
“We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.”
“I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.”
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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