"When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps."

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Margaret Geller

#Confused Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Makeup Quotes

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.”
“The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.”
“True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.”
“I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!”
“The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.”
“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Consciencism”, p.33, NYU Press

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