"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet."

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Norton Juster

#Sea Quotes #Swim Quotes

“I think we should all call ourselves feminists.”

Source : "Hanna Rosin: 'I feel miscast in the gender wars'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.
“For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.”
“Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.”
“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”
“I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.”
“Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.”
“According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.”
“Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC

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