"Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen."

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Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.241, Penguin

Jacqueline Woodson

#Silence Quotes #Stories Quotes #Just Listen Quotes

“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”
“Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.”
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”
“The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.”

Source : "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.
“The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.”
“If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.”
“I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.”
“I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.”

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