"I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Morning Quotes #New Beginnings Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.”

Source : "Ross. Gets all gun-ho. About gangland. In LA". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2008.
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”
“Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.”
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.”
“I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.”
“There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.”
“Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.”
“In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.”

Source : "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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