"Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work."

-- Mona Simpson

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Different Quotes

“I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.”
“Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.”
“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.”
“Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press
“How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.”
“If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage
“Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak”
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

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