"I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house."

-- John Forbes Nash

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“Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam
“For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.”

Source : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin
“I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.”
“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr
“A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.”
“Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.”

Source : Source: forums.juniper.net
“My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.”

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