"My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since."

-- Rich Sommer

#Class Quotes #Study Quotes #Social Quotes

“This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.”
“There can be no truce between science and religion.”

Source : "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
“What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.”

Source : Interview With Carrie Seidman, ticket.heraldtribune.com. October 16, 2012.
“I lost all respect for angstroms.”

Source : "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990", Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.
“The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.”
“Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the Southâ€™s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of manâ€™s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.”
“Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.”
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”

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