"Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is intended for the nonscientist, it provides an accurate guide to the best current thinking about the nature and constitution of our universe. If I wanted to give a gift to a person I would like to become a close friend, this is the book I would choose."

-- John N. Bahcall

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“We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.”
“The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.”

Source : "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.
“Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden”
“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.”
“Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jean Brodie". "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", www.imdb.com. 1969.
“Donâ€™t wait around waiting for God to do something that Heâ€™s already given you the power to do.”
“Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?”
“You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.”

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