"Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think."

-- Roald Hoffmann

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“First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.”

Source : Martin Niemöller (1986). “Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller's Letters from Moabit Prison”
“Don't let other people tell you what you want.”
“You canâ€™t hate someone whose story you know.”
“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
“God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.”
“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?”
“You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo: Mer-Der, she wrote". Interview with Lynette Rice, ew.com. May 6, 2008.
“Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.”

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