"We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear."

-- Lucretius

#Air Quotes #Void Quotes #Bears Quotes

“One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.”
“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 411, 1895.
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.”
“We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.”
“Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.”
“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
“My Brain is the key that sets me free.”
“Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.”

Source : "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.

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