"A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where youâ€™re from, especially if youâ€™re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic."

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Source : Leah Stewart (2013). “The History of Us: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

#Ambition Quotes #People Quotes #Midwest Quotes

“A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.”
“When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.8, Palgrave Macmillan
“It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.”
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.”
“Iâ€™ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.”
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
“Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.”
“How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?”

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