"As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman."

-- John Bright

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“Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”

Source : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.
“I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.”
“They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.”
“There's still people that do it poorly... and people that do it very, very well. I think there's still an incredible spectrum. I guess there's something that's appealing in it, in that everyone on some level is a DJ. But people still go to clubs, and there's still... it is interesting - with everyone having an iPod now - when music is so personalised and things like Pandora and making your own playlists, there's something really powerful about a room full of people all dancing to the same song.”
“We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.”
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”

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