"The very shadows seem to listen."

-- Anna Katharine Green

“I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.”
“I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.”
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
“Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.”
“I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.”

Source : "Chris Brown's Billboard Cover Tease: 'I Hope That I Am Not Defined By Just A Few Moments In My Life'" by Joe Lynch, www.billboard.com. September 4, 2014.
“A loud smile is often a fake laugh.”
“People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.”

Source : Albert Bandura (1997). “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies”, p.11, Cambridge University Press
“I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.”

Source : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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