"I will have nothing to do with a bomb!"

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Lise Meitner

“I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.”
“Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.”
“I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.”
“I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”
“When I choose the picture of the cover of the book 'Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi', I thought, gosh, many people in Karachi may not like this image; I'm representing the city as a burning bus. But to the contrary, they loved it, because that is people's understanding of their own city, of going on with life no matter what.”
“I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial wordsâ€”and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.”
“All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.”
“A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.”

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