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  • I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ai-jen Poo Quotes , Children Quotes , Taken Quotes
  • The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Taken Quotes , Hard Work Quotes
  • All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Taken Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Taken Quotes , Apology Quotes
  • In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Cancer Quotes , Taken Quotes
  • You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Taken Quotes , Guy Quotes