"Women only love those that they donâ€™t know."

-- Mikhail Lermontov

“Ridicule is a public confession of fear.”
“The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower”
“Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.”

Source : Ian Mortimer (2012). “The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England”, p.3, Random House
“What was said before is not important.”

Source : "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2004.
“I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.”
“I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.”
“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.”
“My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.”

Source : "Ex-freedom fighter Kenneth Kaunda on Africa's new battles", www.cnn.com. August 4, 2010.

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