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“Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.”
Source : Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications
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“I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.”
Source : "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010. 
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“I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.”
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“What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.”
Source : "Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke" by Jay Walljasper, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1996.
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“When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.”
Source : "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.
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“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world- class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery,”
Source : "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.
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“But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.”
