"The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it."

-- Larry Niven

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“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesnâ€™t-eat.”
“I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.”
“We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.”

Source : "Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, A Gentleman and a Scholar". Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1949.
“You may only get this one life â€“ but lived free of submissive reverence â€“ that is still a thing of rampant beauty.”

Source : Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.262, Universal-Publishers
“I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.”

Source : "Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless". Interview With Dave Gelly, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2010.
“To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) â€” this is the perpetual illusion of morality.”
“We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.”
“The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.”

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