"Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good."

-- Mary Doria Russell

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“I don't see myself as a diva at all.”
“I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.”

Source : "he Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Comfort and indolence are cronies.”
“Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.”
“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.”

Source : Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.54, Editions Didier Millet
“Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.”
“Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the â€œchance-of-the-gaps fallacy.â€ Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.”
“I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.”

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