"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."

-- Alan Shepard

“For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind”
“I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
“And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.”
“If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.”

Source : "Who Am the World's Foremost Authority? A Lesson from Professor Irwin Corey" by Jim Kniphel, www.nypress.com. January 13, 2001.
“A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.”
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
“I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.”

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