Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Yelena Bonner

Born: February 15, 1923
Died: June 18, 2011 (aged 88)
Bio: Yelena Georgevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov.







