"The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else."

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Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

Douglas Kennedy

#Parent Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Adults Quotes

“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.”
“It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.”
“Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology,”

Source : "People "will start becoming technology" says human cyborg". Interview with Ross Bryant, www.dezeen.com. November 20, 2013.
“Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!”
“I don't think comics use iconic forms - or they don't have to. But that makes them even more "cool," if I understand the idea. One has to be quite involved to make comics work. Signals have to be decoded on both the verbal and visual level, simultaneously, and the reader must do a lot of cognitive work between panels as well. Comics definitely need an engaged reader.”
“every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. it really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.
“It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.”
“Classless society is the dream of people with no class.”

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