"The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

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“But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely and stilly in the heart, and gives perfect evidence and full testimony of itself; so that there needs to be no doubting nor questioning of its motion; for it shows forth itself with full assurance of its own will.”
“I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement comes from when I'm racing and the better the standard of people I'm racing, the more excited I get and the more 'up for it' I get.”
“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.”
“Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.”
“Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.”
“Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.203, Icon Books Ltd
“When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.”
“I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.”

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