"I go into the Upanishads to ask questions."

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Source : "God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter". Book by Stephen Prothero, April 20, 2010.

Niels Bohr

“We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.”
“Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.”

Source : "BM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.
“And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.”
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
“Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.”
“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.”
“In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”

Source : Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”
“And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.”

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