"[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects."

-- Allan McLeod Cormack

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“But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.”
“I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.”
“I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.”
“To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.”
“Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.”
“Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.”
“The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.”
“I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.”

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