"I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!"
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"I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination."
"To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I."
"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth."
"Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling."
"Body is slave of mind. Mind is regulated by ideas, attitudes, beliefs and tendencies. What really matters is that which set of beliefs get most well entrenched in the mind of a person in the first few decades of his life so as to guide him for the rest of his life as he starts his journey from one end of life to another end of life."
"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
"Eye of God [10w] The Hubble-Universe is a microchip in the Eye of God."
"That point in the sky where yellow meets blue, that’s a handshake I want to see at a #networking event. Sunglasses sold separately."
"If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?"
"...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life."
"For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective."
"We're stronger than we think."
"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
"Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'"
"The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity."
"The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us."
"Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime."
"Cleanliness is the scourge of art."
"I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not."
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