"God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I."

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John Godfrey Saxe

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
“One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.”

Source : Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
“I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.”
“In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.”
“Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.48, MIT Press
“I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.”
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
“Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.”

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