"It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]"

-- Cornelius Gallus

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.”

Source : Steve Allen (1987). “How to Make a Speech”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.”

Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.8, Harper Collins
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.”
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
“History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.”
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.”

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