"Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Naps Quotes #Weather Quotes #Eight Quotes

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Source : "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.
“The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2011). “Flights of Love”, p.74, Hachette UK
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.”
“Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.”
“President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."”
“How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?”
“We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.”

Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”
“I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.”

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