"You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter"

-- David Sobel

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“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
“In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”
“A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.”

Source : "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.
“It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!”
“My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.”
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.”
“Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.”

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