"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.”
“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?”
“We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.”
“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”
“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage
“Two incomplete people can't complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you.”
“Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.”
“People are good people. If they know what's going on, and they can relate to it, they can be moved to do something. If they can never see it or never relate to it, they continue to stay disconnected.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com

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