"Gravity is more suggestive than convincing."

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Douglas William Jerrold

#Gravity Quotes #Convincing Quotes

“There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.”
“Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]”
“At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.”
“Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.”
“Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; itâ€™s what the learner learns.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.”
“I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.”
“Being here all day, I was quite exhausted - I had to drink coffee before the match to stay awake”

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