"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

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Mary Wesley

#Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.”

Source : "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.
“The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its final solution nor even whether a final objective answer can be expected at all. "Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.88, Courier Corporation
“I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.”
“Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.”

Source : "Aretha Franklin stops to think - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Norman Jopling, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2012.
“I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur”
“I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.”
“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“September: it was the most beautiful of words, heâ€™d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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