Quotes
Authors
Alfred North Whitehead

"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.”
“You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-”
“Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.”
“Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.”
“To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be â€œreached out toâ€ in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.”
“There are a lot of dream roles that I couldn't do, like James Bond and Indiana Jones; I'd never get a look in there, but actually, Doctor Who is probably the only one that I could because he's quite quirky, and the fact that he regenerates he can actually be anyone. So one day, who knows, I might have a chance. I'd love to play that part.”
“How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!”
“An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.”

Source : "Close Relationships". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, transl. by Harry T. Reis and Caryl E. Rusbult, p. 321, 2004.

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