"A rolling stone can gather no moss."

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Publilius Syrus

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“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”
“[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.”
“It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.”

Source : "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Los Angeles Times Interview, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.
“I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.”
“I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.”

Source : "So Michael, where did it all go wrong?" by Norman Howell, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.
“The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.”
“In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.”
“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”

Source : Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media

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