"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything."

-- Pierre de Fermat

#Science Quotes #Ancient Quotes #Posterity Quotes

“I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always differentâ€”unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.”
“I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.”
“Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.”
“Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.”
“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

Source : Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

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