"Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them."

-- Carl Honore

“If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.”
“It's no good saying one thing and doing another.”
“I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is.”
“No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.”

Source : "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.
“In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But thatâ€™s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine”
“I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some peopleâ€™s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.”
“When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.”
“Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.”

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