"Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.”
“Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.”
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA
“Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.”
“Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this â€˜sensitive words glossary,â€™ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this â€˜castrated writingâ€™ -â€”I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.”

Source : "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“Your dreams must be bigger than your fear. Embrace all opportunities and be all you are destined to be.”

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