"Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.”

Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.
“We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?”
“I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'”
“In France, we have laÃ¯citÃ©, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.”
“There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria
“You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
“Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!”
“If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!”

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