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“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”
Source : Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books
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“For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.”
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“The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.”
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“You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.”
Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.
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“Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.”
Source : "Danny Masterson...dazed & confuzed". AskMen, www.askmen.com.
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“The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.”
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“The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.”
Source : Lee Smolin (2013). “Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”, p.141, Knopf Canada
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“So in my mind I own a lot of house records still”