"October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers."

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.”
“Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.”
“Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.”
“The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.”
“That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.”
“I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.”

Source : "Interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet for TS Spivet". Interview with Matthew Turner, www.filmuforia.co.uk. June 12, 2014.
“Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.”
“As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.”

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