"The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy."

-- John Jay Chapman

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“If there's someone that I just wan to work with in the future, I set a general meeting and I say, "I'm a really big fan. I want to meet you. I'd love to collaborate with you someday and hopefully you'll remember that for the next time you have something that I could be right for."”
“[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.”
“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

Source : "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.
“I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.”
“Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”
“The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.”

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