"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.”
“I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.”
“I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.”

Source : Beverley Birch, Alexander Fleming (2002). “Alexander Fleming: Pioneer with Antibiotics”, Blackbirch PressInc
“One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .”
“Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourÂ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.”
“One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get â€” children. In the meantime, In between time...”
“This is an example of hypocrisy”
“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

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