"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
Veronica Roth
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
Helen Keller
"The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood."
Michelle Templet
"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
Aesop
"Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do."
Sidney Sheldon
"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."
Jacques Yves Cousteau
"What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."
Anonymous
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."
Jorge Luis Borges
"... The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud."
Anonymous
"Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality."
M.F. Moonzajer
"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."
Martin Luther
"The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task."
Fabiola Gianotti
"Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly."
Vinita Kinra
"We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people."
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