"The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions."

-- Fredrik Bajer

#People Quotes #Different Opinions Quotes #Resolution Quotes

“After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride.”
“Birth was the death of him.”
“Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”

Source : "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens), 2002.
“The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.”
“Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.”
“Life is a dream and death an awakening.”
“Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.”
“First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.”

Source : "Obama releases internal Bush Justice Department memos" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2009.

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