"Fear is a habit; I am not afraid."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Habit Quotes #Not Afraid Quotes

“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.”
“It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'”
“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born”
“In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.”
“There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.”
“You could buy a car for fifty thousand dollars. A really nice car.â€ Ascanioâ€™s eyes lit up. â€œA Hummer. You could buy a converted Hummer.â€ â€œYou donâ€™t need a Hummer.â€ I said. â€œChicks dig the Hummer.â€ â€œYou don`t need any chicks either.â€ He gave me an injured look. â€œI have needs.â€ â€œI have needs too and right now I need you to concentrate on tracking down Jamar`s collection. Get to it.â€ - Andrea & Ascanio”
“I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.”

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