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“You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.”
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“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.”
Source : Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
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“It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.”
Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
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“Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.”
Source : Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1921). “The Poems of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson”
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“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”
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“In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.”
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“And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.”
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“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”