"Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning."

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Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Jay Gould

#Life Is Short Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.”

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“I've never done ***** or slept with people for money or anything.”
“A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.”
“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”

Source : Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa
“Whyâ€™s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? Youâ€™re not that cute.â€ (Arianna to Evie)”
“People may like a personâ€™s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.”
“Tigers love pepper...they hate cinnamon.”
“Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.”

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