"When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.”
“Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.”
“The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.”
“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future”

Source : Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1996). “Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy”, p.152, Harvard University Press
“Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.”
“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.”
“You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.”
“It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.”

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