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“Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.”
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“What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.”
Source : thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.126
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“My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.”
Source : "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003. 
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“It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.”
Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.94, Harvard University Press
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“That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.”
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“Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.”
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“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”
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“Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.”
Source : James Trefil (1998). “Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind”, Wiley
