"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Life Quotes #Positive Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
“[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.”
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”
“You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know Iâ€™m real, and then youâ€™re real too.”
“I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.”
“Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.”
“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”

Source : "Conservative Essays" by M. Cowling, Cassell, ("The Present Position"), 1978.
“It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.”

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