"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Reading Quotes #Years Quotes #Week Quotes

“I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.”
“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”
“Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe”

Source : "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.
“I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.”
“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

Source : "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Book by Betty Edwards, 1979.
“Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.”

Source : Song: Sleep Through The Static, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008
“The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.”
“Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?”

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