"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."

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Source : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" by Dennis Hevesi, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.

Irena Sendler

#Children Quotes #Secret Quotes #Titles Quotes

“The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.”
“Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.”
“A merry companion is as good as a wagon.”
“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.”
“We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap.”
“Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
“Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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