"Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien."

-- Iris Chang

“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”
“Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.”
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”

Source : "Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania". P. 38. Book by John Woolf Jordan, 1915.
“I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
“If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.”
“I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen AllÃ¢hâ€™s MessengerÂ (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)Â kiss you, I would never have kissed you.”
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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