"Custom does often reason overrule."

-- John Wilmot

#Doe Quotes #Reason Quotes

“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”
“It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.”
“Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”
“I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?”
“Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.”
“An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.”
“If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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