"You canâ€™t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like thereâ€™s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time itâ€™s off courseâ€”it â€˜failsâ€™ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them."

-- Price Pritchett

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“Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)”
“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isnâ€™t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult whoâ€™s reading aloudâ€”itâ€™s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”
“We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.”
“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”
“I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.”
“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”
“You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?”

Source : Christine Warren (2010). “One Bite With A Stranger”, p.277, Macmillan
“The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.”

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