"I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments."

-- Joseph DeRisi

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Typical Quotes

“I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.”
“How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.”
“I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But itâ€™s worth being a public fool if thatâ€™s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.”

Source : "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman, 2006.
“Godâ€™s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”
“I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.”
“The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.”
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
“It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given by a man who was crucified. He summed it all up when he said, "Love one another." One does not really need to fight for success. One can love one's way to success.”

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