"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense."

-- Hugh Jackman

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“And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.”
“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”
“Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.”
“Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.”
“Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.”
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
“He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.”

Source : Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.123, Random House
“Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin”

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