"A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes."

-- Norbert Wiener

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“Don't come home a failure.”

Source : Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.”
“The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.”
“One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.”
“There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I donâ€™t like it. I donâ€™t like to see everything I see. Itâ€™s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and Iâ€™m not looking at her, Iâ€™m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.”
“A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.”
“If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy.”

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