“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, book The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

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