"You can hold onto anything to make you carry on."

-- Sarah Winman

“It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.”
“The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?”
“Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.”
“Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.115, Cosimo, Inc.
“I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way”
“Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.”
“Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.”
“Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....”

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