"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."

-- Julius Erving

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“In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”
“People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.”

Source : 1964 Interview, 29 Sep.
“What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.”
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”

Source : Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.30, Adventures Unlimited Press
“In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.”

Source : "Beware online 'filter bubbles'". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.”
“Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work.”
“Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.”

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