"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Self Esteem Quotes #School Quotes #Support Quotes

“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 22, 2013
“And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.”
“Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.”
“When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.”
“I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.”
“After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history”

Source : Josh McDowell (1979). “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, Thomas Nelson
“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”
“I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.”

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