"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!"
Jonathan Ive
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process."
Elif Shafak
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
Audre Lorde
"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Without stories, we are incomplete."
Neil Gaiman
"It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The 'Tell the truth!' imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman."
Milan Kundera
"The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans."
Steven Magee
"Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify."
Robert T. Pennock
"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
Idris Elba
"Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread."
Moutasem Algharati
"I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time."
Constance Dejong
"People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves."
Albert Camus
"Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all."
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