"It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness."

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Source : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”

James Smithson

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“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”
“You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.”
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”

Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree
“The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore”
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
“Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.”
“A closed mouth doesn't get fed.”
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

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