"Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary."

-- Tom Robinson

#Book Quotes #Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.”
“There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.”
“When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?”
“Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.108, University of Chicago Press
“I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.”

Source : "Jail time fails to curb Foxy's shopping habit" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2008.
“No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world - only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within.”
“We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school”
“The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.”

Source : "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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