"I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!""

-- Fran Lebowitz

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“There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.”
“What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.”

Source : Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.111, Middleway Press
“People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The players make the manager, it's never the other way.”
“To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.”

Source : "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.
“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”

Source : Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”
“I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.”
“To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit”

Source : John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.83, Hachette UK

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