"The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws."

-- Pyotr Kapitsa

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“Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.”
“Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.”

Source : "From England, Fashion's Latest Darling" by Bee -Shuyang Chang, www.nytimes.com. January 09, 2013.
“Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.”
“A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.”
“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
“I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!”
“This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.137, Yearling
“Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles.”

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