"The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one."

-- Thomas Leonard

#Unique Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Next Quotes

“You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.”
“I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority.”

Source : "Report to Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards and the Authorities of the Church", statement upon requesting rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 5, 1849.
“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”
“Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..”

Source : "Unix: A Dialectic". Book by Dennis Ritchie, 1989.
“I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.”
“As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries”
“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.”

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