"Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied."

-- Lancelot Hogben

#Numbers Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Growing Quotes

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”

Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin
“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
“Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.”
“Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”
“I think it's a really excellent time to be a woman in music. A lot of the past was women fighting to be where women are now. Every once in a while I'll get the, "Oh, you're a pretty good guitar player for a girl," bullshit like that. But that's all changing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.”
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”

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