"It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity."

-- Albert Hofmann

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“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
“It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.”
“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and raisâ€™d in Oceanâ€™s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”
“I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.”
“I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.”

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