"Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course."

-- Diane Setterfield

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“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impactâ€”the more influence you had, the more impact you could create.Â .Â .Â . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.
“I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.”
“I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.”
“I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.”
“In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.”

Source : Michael Showalter (2011). “Mr. Funny Pants”, p.117, Hachette UK
“You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”
“We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"”

Source : John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books
“I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.”

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