"There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”
“Most important, don't do anything you don't want.”
“The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2013). “Into the Void: Star Wars Legends (Dawn of the Jedi)”, p.22, Del Rey
“You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.”
“What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.”

Source : Walter Lewin (2012). “For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.”

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