"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."

-- Antonia Fraser

#Mother Quotes #Young Quotes

“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”
“When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”
“We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do”
“I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?”
“Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.”
“Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.”

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