"A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts."

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John Zachary Young

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“They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.”
“We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.”
“Life is an endless process of self-discovery.”
“I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.”
“Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.”
“A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.”

Source : Sugata Mitra (2006). “The Hole in the Wall: Self-Organising Systems in Education”, New York NY
“Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment â€“ well done, very polished, with a very effective technique â€“ but not literature, just entertainment.”
“Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.”

Source : "Melanie Fiona Talks New Album, Whitney Houston And Starting Her Clothing Line". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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