"I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time."

-- Max Muller

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“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”
“For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.”
“Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.
“If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.”
“In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.”
“Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.”
“Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.”
“If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.”

Source : "An Economic Review of the Patent System". Book by Fritz Machlup, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Study No. 15, p. 79-80, 1958.

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