"Language is the soulâ€™s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril."

-- Sven Birkerts

#Ozone Quotes #Soul Quotes #Layers Quotes

“Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.”
“Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.”
“You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.”
“For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.”
“Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!”

Source : "Jenna's Workout Playlist!" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.
“Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.”
“I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.”

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