"When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways."

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Joaquin Phoenix

#Believe Quotes #Parent Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.”

Source : Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.
“And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.”

Source : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books
“Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.”
“Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

Source : "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.
“Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.”
“Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.”
“Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.”
“Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions.”

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