"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."

-- Marilyn vos Savant

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“This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods-the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.”

Source : Attributed in "The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson" by Lord Rayleigh, (p. 199), 1943.
“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”
“I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.”
“Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.”
“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”
“I like you just the way I am.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, St. Martin's Press
“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first adult novel, Lucy Maud Montgomerys The Blue Castle.”

Source : "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.
“We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.”

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