"They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break."

-- Robin Wasserman

#Best Friend Quotes #Goodbye Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.”
“You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.”
“When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jun 30, 2014
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
“One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.”
“But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.”
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Source : James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage
“Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.”

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