"When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it."

-- Anne Tyler

“Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.”
“You have to fight gravity.”
“Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 18, 2014
“Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.”
“Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.”
“I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.”
“We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.”

Source : Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?”

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