"After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

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“As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage
“Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.”

Source : Jack Vance (2011). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.73, Hachette UK
“It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.”
“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.”

Source : Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage
“Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.”
“One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.”

Source : "‘Precious’ Star Gabourey Sidibe: My First Diet Started At Age Six". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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