"I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else."

-- John Polkinghorne

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“Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”
“I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.”
“There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.”
“We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.”
“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.”
“Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation
“Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.”

Source : "Online Extra: A Talk with Pierre Omidyar". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.
“It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”

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