From The Foreword For Pairs 1919 Quotes & Sayings

If she doesn't learn about data structures at home, she'll just learn about it on the streets." Sandra laughed. This was Greg's stock answer for all the age-inappropriate activities he tried to teach the kids. Most of them were odd, but benign, like computer programming. However some - like coaching them to win every argument by declaring, That sounds like something Hitler would say -were much less benign. — Penny Reid

We fail to build slack because we focus on what must be done now and do not think enough about all the things that can arise in the future. The present is imminently clear whereas future contingences are less pressing and harder to imagine. When the intangible future comes face to face with the palpable present, slack feels like a luxury. — Sendhil Mullainathan

There's nothing like a bunch of catty teenagers who could either kick your ass halfway across the country or set you on fire with a mere thought. That alone changed who people picked fights with or became friends with. And at the end of the day, it was always good to have a firestarter in your back pocket. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. — Gregory Colbert

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course! — Lemony Snicket

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided. — Richard Holbrooke

God is joy. Joy contains light that illuminates your entire being and those that come in contact with you. — Vivian Amis

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form. — Beth Moore

It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for. — Joe Torre

Harmony and grace depend on simplicity ... the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character. — Plato

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. — Irrfan Khan