"It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved â€” turned this way and that, examined, considered."

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Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing

Ahdaf Soueif

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“We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.”

Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.189, Penguin UK
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“I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.”
“One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.”
“Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?”
“The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.”

Source : "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.
“Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.”

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