"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,”

Source : 'Love in a Cold Climate' (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2
“Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.”
“I look for people who have raw intelligence and a great work ethic and loyalty, and I can quickly identify people who have the right ingredients. But sometimes it is more difficult to get them to accept the fact that they can take on increasing responsibility. Oftentimes individuals will decide how far [they] go by how much work they're willing to put in and how quick they are to ask for help. Too many people have this deep-seated fear that if they ask for help, they will be thought less of.”
“The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.”
“Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.”

Source : Scott Turow (2013). “Presumed Innocent”, p.118, Pan Macmillan
“You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.”
“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.”

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