"Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time."

-- Cecelia Ahern

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“Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn't be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going.”
“It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.”
“Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.”
“Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.”
“Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.”
“On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

Source : "Science and Hypothesis". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: "Hypotheses in Physics", 1913.
“Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.”

Source : "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.
“Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.”

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