"It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#May Quotes #Mood Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.”
“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.”

Source : "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century". www.nwp.org. 2006.
“I love everything John Carpenters ever done.”
“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
“All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.”
“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
“Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”

Source : Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45
“I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.”

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