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“For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. Perhaps sesquipedalian chemical names just sound dangerous. But in that case we should blame the chemists, and not the chemicals themselves. Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“That's the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk, but beyond it. Out in the world where it's so beautiful and complex and painful that sometimes you just need to sit down and write about it.”
― David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

“The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can app|y it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialtsts?”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing