"I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money."

-- Zhang Xin

#Strong Quotes #Kings Quotes #Europe Quotes

“What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .”
“That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.”
“There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'”

Source : "Emilia Clarke: Daenerys is empowering". sg.news.yahoo.com. July 1, 2015.
“In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.”

Source : Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1923). “Laughter from a Cloud”
“There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.”
“I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct â€” and societal repression much more devastating.”
“Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.91, Beacon Press
“The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.”

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