"There are some people, who don’t wait."

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Source : Robert Krulwich's Commencement Address at Berkeley, blogs.discovermagazine.com. May 7, 2011.

Robert Krulwich

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.”

Source : "Heavy Petting". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, July 4, 2015.
“Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!”
“Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.”
“When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.”
“If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.”
“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.”

Source : "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Book by Ward Churchill, 2004.
“It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.”

Source : "A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet". Book by John Wilkins, Book 1, Chapter 14, p. 238-239, 1640.
“The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it!”

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