#kindlehighlight

Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#nature

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#nature

A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature. ↗

— John S. Savage

#nature

Never make a decision until you have to. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#kindlehighlight

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#age

I am sorry for being so weak. I will always love you…” Arin whispers back to his family without facing them again, “But this Detrelli, this devil… it will never touch another person … never again… Not a single death will go unaccounted for, I promise you both… I promise…”    ↗

— Jason J. Berg

#death

But bringing people together is what music has always done best. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#love

Though you see nothing, he is acting. ↗

— Max Lucado

#kindlehighlight

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#experience

Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#beauty