"All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."

-- Michelle Obama

#Fighting Quotes #Simple Quotes #World Quotes

“Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.”
“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”
“At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.”
“While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.”
“I fear no one, but respect everyone.”
“Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.”
“The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.113, MIT Press

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