"When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak."

“People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

“Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.”

“Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.”

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”

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“What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.”

“It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.”

“Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.”

Source : Christian De Duve (1995). “Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative”, Basic Books

“The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.”

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