"I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it."

-- Baratunde Thurston

#Creating Quotes #People Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.”
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”
“I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.”

Source : "Writers Reflect On Childhood Torment In 'Dear Bully'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 7, 2011.
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.”

Source : Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”
“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.”
“A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.”

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