"Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way."

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Jose Bergamin

“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.”

Source : "Can Physics Experiments Catch Up?". Interview with Anil Ananthaswamy, www.slate.com. March 2, 2013.
“The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.”

Source : Speech, April 24, 1987.
“Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.”
“I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.”
“I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.”
“I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you write. You sit down and you're thinking things and dreaming things and someone says something and you think "Ah!" That's how it happens. Intention is not part of the game.”
“An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“No one is going to understand your brand better than you.”

Source : "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.

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