"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."

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Bernard Cornwell

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“Creativity is discontent translated into arts.”
“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.”
“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.”
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”

Source : "Of Pharaohs and Firearms". Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Website, jpfo.org. 2012.
“I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.”
“We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.”
“Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.”

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