"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."

-- Laurence Sterne

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“Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.”
“If my body needs something, I need to give it that.”
“I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, sometimes what keeps me up at night is just that I don't want to say good-bye to that day. And at the same time, I love to start the next day. I think I'm essentially a very unsettled person.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?”
“It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.”
“The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.”

Source : Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer
“I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.”
“I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.”

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