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“I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.”
Source : Edmund Hillary (1999). “View from the Summit”, Corgi Books
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“The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.”
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“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”
Source : "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.
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“Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.”
Source : "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.
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“The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I think I'm a very poor piano player.”
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“Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks”
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“First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.”