"What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Kids Quotes #Stories Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you.”
“Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.”
“Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?”
“If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.”
“The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.”
“When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.”

Source : James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1994). “The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression”, p.433, Simon and Schuster
“So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.”
“I think happiness is love.”

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