"The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything."

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”

“I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.”

“I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.”

“America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.”

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

“Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?”

“I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.”

Source : "Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.

“No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.”

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