"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

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Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Jay Gould

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“Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.”
“I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.”
“I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.”

Source : "Woods". Song by Justin Vernon, 2009.
“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.”
“I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.”
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”
“Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.”

Source : "Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.
“rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin

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