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Richard Dawkins

"It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?"

-- Richard Dawkins

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“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”
“A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”
“Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”

Source : Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.”
“In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawaâ€™s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canadaâ€™s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. Youâ€™re going to want to read this.”
“And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.”
“You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.”
“The tears of God are the meaning of history”

Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.90, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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