"A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion."

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Kim Edwards

#Father Quotes #Years Quotes #Alchemist Quotes

“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.”
“The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.”
“Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”
“We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.”

Source : Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
“I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.”

Source : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“They may never say it, but your parents really are proud of you when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.”
“In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.”

Source : Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2008). “Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems”, p.73, Penguin UK
“With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyos! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.”

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