"I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment."

-- Wally Schirra

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“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
“The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174
“There is no business to be done on a dead planet.”
“I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.”
“My parents have been with me every step of the way.”

Source : "'American Idol's' Haley Reinhart Talks New Album, Guest Stars (Exclusive)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2012.
“He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.”
“I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.”
“With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.”

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