"I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people."

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Source : "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

Jonah Lomu

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“It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.”
“You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.”
“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
“In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
“If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie”
“Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.”

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