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Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I mean, he's the kind of guy that when he wants something, he lets it be known. He's not shy about that at all. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses. — Ricky Gervais

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly. — John Updike

Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration. — Don DeLillo

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Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time to solve the dilemma and prevent people from engaging, a few years hence, in bitter and fruitless linguistic conflicts. We know all too well what time will do.
The only possible answer is a voluntary policy aimed at strengthening linguistic diversity and based on a simple idea: nowadays everybody obviously needs three languages. The first is his language of identity; the third is English. Between the two we have to promote a third language, freely chosen, which will often but not always be another European language. This will be for everyone the main foreign language taught at school, but it will also be much more than that
the language of the heart, the adopted language, the language you have married, the language you love. — Amin Maalouf

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say. — Katie Hafner

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E. Stevenson

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are. — Howard G. Hendricks

I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises. — Mary Kay Zuravleff