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“Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.”

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Luther Burbank, an American botanist known as the 'Edison of Botany', dedicated his life to plant breeding. Through continuous experimentation, he developed hundreds of new plant varieties, profoundly impacting horticulture and agriculture. more

“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.”

“When I hear my teacher say, 'Line up with your partner,' I run to line up and grab my partner and I tell him to walk faster so we could dance faster. I love to dance.”

Running Lines Walks Teacher Partners Faster

Author:Stephanie

“Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.”

Years Five Organization Five Years Assets Leaving Me

Author:Alfred P. Sloan

“I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.”

Ifs Knows Running Scared

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Hard Problem Remember Sun First Time Addiction Showers Sneak

Book:More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.”

World Way Looks Wonder Vision Hell Focus Rocks Bottom Extremes Inability Unbearable Commonplace

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing”

Shows Poor Throwing Bicycle Upbringing Refrain Riding A Bicycle

Author:Jacquie Phelan

“[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.”

Long Desire Teacher Remarkable Candy Desire To Learn

Author:Steve Jobs

“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Problem School Asks Parent Attention Students Customers Pay Attention Employers

Author:Steve Jobs

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