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“Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.”
Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.66, Random House
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“My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?”
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“I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.”
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“I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'”
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“It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas”
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“When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.”
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“Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.”
Source : Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press
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“If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.”
