Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations....
Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972):
“There are two sides to every question:
my side and the wrong side.”
Sarah Vowell (1969 - ):
“Just the other day,
I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was
enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha
is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish
exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of
the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of
Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's
Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism,
genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream
on top.”
and
“Being a nerd, which
is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to
make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend
has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't
say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a
paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I
made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at
lunch and started talking about the Cure.”
Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895):
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
and
“A bottle of wine contains more
philosophy than all the books in the world.”
and
“Wine is the most healthful and most
hygienic of beverages.”
and
“Science knows no country because it is
the light that illuminates the world.”
and
“When I approach a
child he inspires in me two sentiments, tenderness for what he is and respect
for what he may become.”
Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630):
“Nature uses as little as possible of
anything.”
and
“The Earth is round, and is inhabited
on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”
and
“The diversity of the
phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so
rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh
nourishment.”
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