"We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap."

-- Sylvia Pankhurst

#Tree Quotes #Vigor Quotes #Use Quotes

“I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.”
“Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.”
“The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.”
“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”
“But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.”
“There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.”
“The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.”
“Living in your genome is the history of our species.”

Source : "Genomics 101". Taste3 Talk, www.ted.com. June 30, 2008.

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