"I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me."

-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Technology Quotes #Cowboy Quotes #California Quotes

“You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”
“No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.
“So my views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand,”

Source : "Tamala Jones And Sarah Shahi Come Out As Gay Allies" by Glennisha Morgan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2013.
“No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.”
“It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.”
“Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.”
“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”
“Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.”

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