"It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in."

-- E. L. Doctorow

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“I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.”

Source : "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.
“Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.”
“The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.”

Source : "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.
“Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.”
“Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“The reality is that players can't play forever.”

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