"Don't hate what you don't understand!"

-- John Lennon

“I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.”
“Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.”

Source : "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.
“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press
“Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density.”
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
“Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called scienceÂ… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.”
“Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.”
“Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.”

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