"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."

-- Lin Biao

#Latin Quotes #Europe Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.”
“I'm allergic to over-promising. I'm allergic to exaggeration, because I've been in schools for a large part of my life, and I still go to schools. What I want is realistic, evidence-based kinds of things that know the history of efforts to individualize instruction and why they flop before, so you can have a much smarter approach to reforming schools, to improve what goes on in classrooms.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Hermits have no peer pressure.”
“Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.”
“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
“It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept.”
“The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.”

Source : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.17
“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”

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