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“The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.”
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“I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.”
Source : "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012. 
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“Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.”
Source : "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.
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“Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.”
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“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
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“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.”
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“it will be miraculous, very miraculous.”
Source : Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi (2001). “Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail”, Miramax Books
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“Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.”
