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Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

If you are going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill, Former UK Prime Minister

You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.

— Robert Heinlein, American Author

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. 

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

— Socrates, Classical Greek Philosopher 

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist
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