"My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful."

-- Hamlin Garland

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“Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.”

Source : George Porter's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1967.
“I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.”

Source : "Art and Healing: Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe". Interview with Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History" series of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, www.youtube.com. April 16, 1999.
“Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues,”
“Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.”
“After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.”

Source : "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.
“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.”
“I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.”
“One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.”

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