"This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Freedom Quotes #Flying Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.”
“It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.”

Source : "Backstreet boys". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2007.
“I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity.â€ He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. â€œI can drain faster than you can run.”
“We need more NBA owners to own WNBA teams.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media
“I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.”
“Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together.”

Source : "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.
“Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.”

Source : "Why Learning Trumps Knowledge" by Laura Huckabee-Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2014.

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