"To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is."

-- Jan Struther

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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Source : "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
“To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.”
“No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of ***** ever read a story to a sleepy child.”
“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”
“Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.”
“I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.”
“Don't fight forces, use them.”
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”

Source : "Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood" by Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1895.

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