"A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.”
“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.”

Source : Bonar Law's speech in the Albert Hall, January 26, 1912.
“Whoever lives true life, will love true love.”

Source : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36
“Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.”
“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”
“If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.”

Source : "Ivar Giaever's Nobel Prize". Interview with Alfred Leitner, 1982.
“I have no confidence whatsoever in BP . I think that they do not know what they are doing.”

Source : "Government Scientists Are Consulting But Unable to Stop BP Oil Spill". www.foxnews.com. May 30, 2010.

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