Latanya Sweeney Quotes & Sayings

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which
he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of
other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is
the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for
data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called "this world" is the
universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. — Aldous Huxley

We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands of millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint ... a symphony ... but we lack the ears to hear it. — Stanislaw Lem

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with. — Frank McCourt

Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals. — Severino Antinori

Lose control once in a while, and your emotions will make your strong. Keep your heart open, and they'll make you invincible. — Eric Smith

What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him. — Mihail Sebastian

Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through — Gloria Estefan

Love is the wine of existence. — Henry Ward Beecher

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos

Chess is a test of wills. — Paul Keres