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“The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.”
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“I am the enemy of anything parochial.”
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“I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.”
Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012. 
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“I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.”
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“By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.”
Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
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“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”
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“To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.”
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“One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.”
Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2010). “It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
