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“One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
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“If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!”
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“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”
Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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“In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.”
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“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
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“There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.”
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“Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.”
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“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”
Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press
