"In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth."

-- Louis Agassiz

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“In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.”
“When you have everything, you have everything to lose.”
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual”
“Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.”
“Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.”
“In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.”

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