"The library smells like old books â€” a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks."

-- Laura Whitcomb

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“The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.”

Source : "Close-up : I'm Looking for a Market for Wisdom. Leo Szilard, Scientist". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 75, September 01, 1961.
“Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.”
“I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.”

Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
“scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.”
“We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Two Women in One”, p.26, Saqi
“The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen?”
“My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.”

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