"The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves"

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Source : Italo Calvino (1985). “Mr. Palomar”, Harcourt

Italo Calvino

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“A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning.”
“This is the eighth game in the series and when we work on a Mario Kart title, we work on courses and we create them and then we work on them again, and again, and again, and we revise until we come up with something that we think is going to be fun for everyone to play over and over again. So we have a lot of confidence in our ability to do so, but we understand what a tough challenge it is to create those courses.”

Source : "Why Mario Kart 8 doesn't let players design tracks" by Chris Pereira & Jose Otero, www.ign.com. April 3, 2014.
“There are so many clichÃ©s in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.”
“Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.”

Source : "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.
“The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.”
“There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.”

Source : Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.77, Penguin
“Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.72, Random House
“You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.”

Source : "Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009: She Changed the World for People With Mental Disabilities". learningenglish.voanews.com. August 21, 2009.

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