"Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know."

-- Graham Swift

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.”
“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”
“We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State....”
“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day”
“An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.”
“We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.”
“Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

Source : Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“The last film is always the most important.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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