"I donâ€™t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. Iâ€™m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning."

-- Temple Grandin

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“And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.”
“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada
“There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.”
“Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.”
“Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.”
“You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.”
“Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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