"It's not what you play, it's how you play it."

-- Mary Lou Williams

“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”
“Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'”

Source : "Ron Conway: S.F. mover and shaker" by Heather Knight, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2012.
“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Source : "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
“Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.”
“I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.”

Source : "17 Questions With Alexander Ludwig" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2012.
“It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there, so I think we'll always have theater. I think theater will always be a powerful force because we need that human touch, particularly as we spend more and more time with machines, cell phones, computers we start to lose our humanity.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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