"I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #Humans Quotes

“The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.”
“Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.”
“Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration”
“I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.”

Source : "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.
“I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.”
“Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified”
“Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
“How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.”

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