"I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had principles and logic ... [rather than dealing with a] messy thing called life. It just wasn't organized, and I wanted to stick with the nice pristine sciences of chemistry and physics, where everything made sense. I wish I had learned sooner that biology could be fun as well."

-- Francis Collins

#Appreciation Quotes #Fun Quotes #Nice Quotes

“It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.”
“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”

Source : "Der Afrikafeldzug: Rommels Wüstenkrieg 1941-1943". Book by Franz Kurowski, p. 112, 1986.
“You can't say the secret word!”
“In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.”
“How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.”
“To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense”
“Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.”
“But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”

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