"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

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Source : Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

Virginia Woolf

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“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being”
“Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.”

Source : "Q&A: Steve Nash on Trying Out for Inter Milan, the Dwight Howard Pitch Meeting, and His Favorite TV Dramas". Interview with Zach Lowe, grantland.com. July 31, 2013.
“One particular aspect of Siddharthaâ€™s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at armâ€™s length from multiplicity.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK
“I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.”
“Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.”
“You can try to call it coincidence, but at the end of the day, there are 20, 30 things when you combine them all that had to happen at the right time in order for me to be here. Thatâ€™s why I call it a miracle.”
“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”
“The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.”

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