"Such as I am, I am a precious gift."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

“The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.”
“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.”

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“To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.”

Source : "Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom : A Collection of 10,000 Powerful Quotations" by Andy Zubko, (p. 184), 2003.
“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.”
“You know, you don't please everybody.”
“Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.”
“The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.”
“Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”

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