"From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world."

-- Daniel Quinn

#Children Quotes #World Quotes #Fantastic Quotes

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197
“If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.”
“I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the 68 Comeback Special.”
“The way of the parkour is to continue, not to stay here.”
“No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.”
“Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.”
“But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.”
“Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.”

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