"Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will."

-- Olga Broumas

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“In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.”
“You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.”
“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, 1922.
“At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.”
“There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm.”
“We travel through the dark of the moon wheneverâ€¦ we face the loss of that form which has given our life a structure and sense of identityâ€¦ What has been is no longer, and what is to come has not yet appeared.”
“Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.”
“I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.”

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