"Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take."

-- Meret Oppenheim

“Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.”
“A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.”
“Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.”
“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

Source : "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.
“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”
“You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?”
“The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.”

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