"If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education."

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Source : "Zhores I. Alferov - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2000.

Zhores Alferov

#God Quotes #Education Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.”
“Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask â€” and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelleâ€™s eyes widened. â€œYou let her drink a â€˜gravediggerâ€™?â€ â€œNo no no,â€ Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. â€œYou shouldnâ€™t ever drink a gravedigger until heâ€™s had a bath.â€ She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. â€œMother Night,â€ Lucivar muttered. â€œDo you know that song?â€ Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.”
“I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.”
“Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.”
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
“one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.214, Dial Press
“I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.”
“I like to make collages - paper collages.”

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