"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."

-- Richard P. Feynman

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“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”

Source : Louise Penny (2009). “A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.71, Macmillan
“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”
“If the U.S. turns away from the international system, then we will simply have to look after it ourselves. Together, we can demonstrate that, even in the Trump era, free trade is not a thing of the past.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.”

Source : Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411
“The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.”
“Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.”
“American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books
“There 's nothing like being used to a thing.”

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