"Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are."

-- Harry Chapin

#Girl Quotes #Stars Quotes #Boys Quotes

“If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.”
“People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.”
“I'm always being inspired .”
“We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.”
“I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.”
“Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”
“A few years ago we said, 'Hail Guru Ram Das and heal the world.' It looked like a joke at that time. Heal with what? Now the Age has come when your own psyche can be in flow and beam on the other personality, and in the cross-exchange you can heal a person just by walking by his side. For this we have to have a mental clarity, and we have to have a mental projection.”
“Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.”

Source : "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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