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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#easier #facts #fit #ignore #preconceptions

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away. ↗

— Shaun White

#am #away #going #i #i am

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#life

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope. ↗

— Shaun White

#cool #cool thing #crazy #dealing #defect

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago. ↗

— Shaun White

#ago #cereal #day #eat #every

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. ↗

— Timothy White

#even #hands #holding #life #make

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus. ↗

— George Whitefield

#bond #children #christ #even #female

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#life

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#ignorance #knowledge

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fools #imagination #knowledge #without