"For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction."

-- Norman Ralph Augustine

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“I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.”
“At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.”

Source : "Face of Chanel, mind of her own". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2000.
“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.57, Random House
“I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.”
“When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.”
“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”
“Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.”
“Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.”

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