"Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries."

-- Vannevar Bush

#Essence Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Sake Quotes

“One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
“Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.”
“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”
“To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?”
“[The highs and lows of show business is] a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.”
“When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.88, Macmillan

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