"August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot."

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Gertrude Stein

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“I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes to work and I'll do a few hours of writing, then I'll mess about for a bit and come back to it. By the time I go home I'm done. I think it's really good to keep that kind of a routine with writing. I find that when I don't do that, it's really hard to get back into that headspace of writing.”
“The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.”
“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
“I keep lot of my opinions to myself.”
“Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.”
“There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.”
“We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.”

Source : "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.
“It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.”

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