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“My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.”
Source : Twitter post from Feb 02, 2012
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“We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'”
Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
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“The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.”
Source : Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books
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“Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.”
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“This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.”
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“I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.”
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“Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.”
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“You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.”