"The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes."

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Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

Celia Green

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“My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”
“God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.”

Source : T. D. Jakes (2002). “The Great Investment: Balancing. Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life”, p.47, Penguin
“Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.”

Source : "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 4, 2008.
“You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.”
“These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.”
“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.”
“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”

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