"Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Style Quotes

“What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.”
“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”
“If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?”

Source : "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.
“This wasÂ Mahatma Gandhiâ€™s idea, moving from ownership to relationshipâ€”seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.”
“But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.”
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
“A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.”
“Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.”

Source : Speech on the World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan, January 06, 2004.

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