"My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand."

-- Frederick Reines

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“Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.”
“Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.”
“Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.”
“There's too many interesting women I haveâ€¦not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.”
“The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.”
“My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fearâ€¦ we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.”

Source : "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life". Book by Shantideva, www.huffingtonpost.com. c. 700 AD.
“Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.”
“A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.”

Source : William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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