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You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#fathers #generations #knowledge #relationships #sons

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. ↗

— Alice Walker

#felt #i #i am #known #never

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#dangerous #ear #go #music #other

I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you can bet your life on a theory. Remember, gravity is "just a theory" too. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#theory #death

Živi što ljepše, ali tako da te nije stid. I radije pristani da te Bog pita: zašto nisi to učinio? ↗

— Meša Selimović

#living-life #living-life-to-the-fullest #death

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #life

My mother's life was way too heavy for me. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life

I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#mothers-love #life

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. ↗