"Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables."

-- Dean Karnazes

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“You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.”

Source : "2 M.R.I. Pioneers Win Nobel Prize" by Nicholas Wade, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2003.
“Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.”
“In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.”
“There is nothing unimportant in the universe.”
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.”
“I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and we were also competing with the computer. That was mind-blowing to me at that time. It was just so cool to think about the computer being able to play with us, and then also [for] us to compete.”
“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”
“I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.”

Source : Song: Bring The Pain, Album: Tical

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