"Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported."

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Greatness Quotes #Social Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.”
“I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.”
“Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.”
“It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.30, Pan Macmillan
“I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.”
“People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.”
“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California”
“Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.”

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