"This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets."

-- Heather Armstrong

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“Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.”
“Clever is the eunuch version of funny.”
“Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.”
“Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.”
“The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world”

Source : Karl Taylor Compton (1955). “A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”
“When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.”
“To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense”
“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.221, Northwestern University Press

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