"Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion."

-- Betty Smith

#People Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.”
“Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.”
“The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.”

Source : John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
“Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.”
“You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you wonâ€™t create a consciousness.”
“No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
“We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.â€ Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all theyâ€™d been through. Maybe because of it. â€œIâ€™ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.”

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