"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."

-- Albert Schweitzer

#Gratitude Quotes #Science Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes

“And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey, I had a nice time, but I don't think things are going to work out between us." Only you can help fight ghosting.”
“This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”
“I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.”
“Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One decision can change your life forever.”
“Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence trick ever tried the damage would be fairly minimal. But the problem is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of doctors believe the lie that they are taught; they believe that they are scientists, practising an applied science.”
“Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown

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