"Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits."

-- Oliver DeMille

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“Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.”
“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”
“Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.”
“It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.”
“God is to creation as silence is to sound.”
“Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.”
“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”
“We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2011). “Home Fires”, p.137, Macmillan

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