"My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldnâ€™t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard peopleâ€™s thoughts. Of course, she couldnâ€™t admit I was literally hearing peopleâ€™s thoughts because that just didnâ€™t fit into her world."

-- Charlaine Harris

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“We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.74, South End Press
“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”

Source : Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon
“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”
“If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.”
“I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.”
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”
“Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.”
“You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.”

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