"Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers."

-- Oliver Sacks

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“Well, the sugar guys have been dealing with NAFTA ever since it passed. Now we've got Mexico dumping sugar that's subsidized by the Mexican government into our market in violation of the World Trade Organization, because NAFTA gave them open access to our sugar market. They claim they're not subsidized, but the government owns half the industry in Mexico.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.”
“The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.”
“For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”
“In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, andâ€”if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedomâ€”disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.”
“Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.”

Source : Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, Al-Jazeera TV, February 3, 2006.
“Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.38, Princeton University Press
“Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.”

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