"Science is the topography of ignorance."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.”
“I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.”
“Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly”
“Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.”
“Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.”
“Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy.”
“You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.”

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