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“What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to do it, it's just something my voice has. I think that's one of the reasons why Okkervil has been dubbed as really mopey - I have this tone to my voice that sounds like that.”
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“Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.”
Source : Interview with Professor Nicola Cabibbo by John L. Allen, Jr., www.natcath.org. July 18, 2005.
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“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.”
Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.109, Penguin
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“However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.”
Source : William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”
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“The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.”
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“When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.”
Source : FaceBook post by David Copperfield from May 28, 2012
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“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
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“We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.”