"When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building."

-- Zaha Hadid

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“Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.”
“I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.”
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.”
“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.”
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earthâ€™s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for â€¦ the origin of chains of high mountains â€¦ and the rise of lava to the earthâ€™s surface.”
“What you think you know versus what you actually learn.”
“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.
“Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.”

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