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“The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.”
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“A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.”
Source : "War's biggest puzzle will only be solved when Baghdad falls". www.smh.com.au. April 7, 2003. 
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“The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.”
Source : John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand
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“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”
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“I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity.”
Source : "Jesus Camp". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.
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“Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.”
Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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“I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.”
