"Not everything thatâ€™s cool is science, but everything in science is cool."

-- Phil Plait

“Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2004). “Heir Apparent”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.”
“Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.”

Source : "The Myth of Finding Your Purpose" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
“Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.”
“I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases oneâ€™s noble conduct (al-murÃ»`ah).”
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

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