"The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth."

-- Konrad Lorenz

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“I thought back to a childhood memory: the first dead body I'd ever seen was the body of an immigrant washed up on shore. I went back to that memory. As a child, you can't process these types of images in a healthy way. I don't think anyone can, really. So I explored that. These people were buried in mass graves. I don't know if their families ever heard from them again.”
“Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.”
“The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia.”

Source : The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788.
“Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!”

Source : Quoted in Hermann H. Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding (1923)
“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
“To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.”
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”

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