"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers."

-- Howard Thurman

#Brother Quotes #Long Quotes #Community Quotes

“It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head...”
“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
“You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.
“If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play”

Source : "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.
“The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.”

Source : "The Book of Ice" by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber
“I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.”

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