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| The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. -George Washington Carver The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -P. B. Medawar, Biologist You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a planation. -Billie Holiday A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. -Herb Caen Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. -Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza All great truths begin as blasphemies. -George Bernard Shaw I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. -Katherine Hepburn Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -R. Buckminster Fuller It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. -Marilyn Monroe More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. -Franklin D. Roosevelt If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. -Shunryu Suzuli In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing. But, you could see it. -Dave Weinstein Research is formalized curiousity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein. -Zora Neale Hurston There are very few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. -Sylvia Plath Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. Boone A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. -Martin Luther King Jr. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. -Zora Neale Hurston I've been on a calendar, but never on time. -Marilyn Monroe I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. -Sylvia Plath |
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