"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

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Source : Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.31, Faber & Faber

Junot Diaz

“I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.”
“There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.”

Source : "Co2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.
“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

Source : Almansor: A Tragedy l. 245 (1823)
“The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.”
“The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.”

Source : Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.44, A&C Black
“In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.”
“In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.”
“I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.”

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