"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"

-- Walt Whitman

#Cities Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.”
“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”
“I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.”
“You have to accept yourself, and you have to realize that you're beautiful.”
“It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.”

Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1851). “Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”, p.174
“As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.”
“The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.”
“In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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