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The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. ↗

— Peter Agre

#always #bible #christmas #dad #dinner

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ↗

— Saint Augustine

#deep #even #hidden #him #man

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#better #bomb #bombs #cartoonist #cartoons

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#friends #jefferson #never #planters #rich

People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.' So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself. ↗

— George Carlin

#sci-fi #sleep #experience

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm. ↗

— Peter Agre

#cell #department #directed #energy #engaging

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#deep #enough #exotic #find #i