"all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!"

-- Frederick Franck

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“I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.”
“Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.”
“Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.”
“The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.”
“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”

Source : On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York, October 28, 1964.
“Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.”
“I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.”

Source : "A Minute With: Irrfan, formerly Irrfan Khan". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 23, 2012.
“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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