"All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive."

-- Luther Burbank

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“I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.”
“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.”
“It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”

Source : Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books
“You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.”
“I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you”
“If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.”
“I am enthusiastic over humanityâ€™s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterdayâ€™s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.”

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