"When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important."

-- Daniel Kahneman

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“I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.”
“among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House
“Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.”
“I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.”
“How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

Source : Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”
“But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.”

Source : "Glasgow School of Art fire: 'iconic and unique library is lost'" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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