"Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid."

-- Primo Levi

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“Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.”

Source : Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“We didnâ€™t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldnâ€™t waste an afternoon on it”
“The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.”
“I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.”
“A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.”

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