"It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.”
“People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.”
“You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin
“To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.”

Source : ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1952). “THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION”
“Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.”

Source : "Many actresses hitting middle age find themselves desperate for good parts. Rosanna Arquette chases them down" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2003.
“if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.”
“There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.”

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