"If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer."

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David Tudor

#Accepting Quotes #Situation Quotes #Unpredictability Quotes

“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.”
“We werenâ€™t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. Itâ€™s open source and itâ€™s free. We werenâ€™t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, itâ€™s just so much better. Youâ€™re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”
“When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.”
“Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.”
“There are many questions in this world that have no answers.”
“They've lost their minds.”
“Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.”
“It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.”

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