"French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries."

-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Country Quotes #Culture Quotes #Ageing Quotes

“It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.”
“I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.”
“Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again”

Source : Étienne Gilson (1976). “The arts of the beautiful”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.”
“The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord's house. "The atmosphere of my Father's house," Jesus seemed to say, "is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord.”
“If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.”
“Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.”
“I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.”

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