"I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works."

-- Marian McPartland

#Affection Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.”
“All rock n roll is homosexual.”
“Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.”
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”
“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.”
“I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.”
“As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.”
“A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.”

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