"But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that."

-- Lisa See

#Book Quotes #Looks Quotes #Maps Quotes

“...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.”

Source : Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.128, MIRA
“Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.”
“Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.”
“The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1929). “The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science”
“The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a cool 90's anger, at a time when we're not very good at openly being angry. . . . I don't think I ever thought the title was titillating. I thought it was incredibly catchy. If the play is about the reduction in human relations down to a consumerist rationale, then thematically, the title is entirely linked into the thesis of the play.”
“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”
“Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.”

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