"When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you - you know, rock and roll music, or really serious, long novels that you get so absorbed in, you forget to study."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jenova Chen

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“Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.”
“I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.”
“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”
“There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.”
“There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”
“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.”

Source : "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.
“The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.”
“I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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