"if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get."

-- Patricia Wentworth

#Ambition Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.”
“People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.”
“The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.”

Source : "Leaving the Fold". "This American Life" podcast, 258, www.thisamericanlife.org. January 30, 2004.
“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.”
“I think the truth is black-and-white .”
“Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.”
“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.”

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