"The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it."

-- Philip Pullman

#Sex Quotes #Book Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.”

Source : Song: Don't Mean Nothing
“I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me...”
“I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.”
“A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that”

Source : Joseph Rickaby (1925). “An Old Man's Jottings”
“We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.”
“Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.”
“In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.”
“What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.”

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