"Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness."

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Source : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books

Jerome Lawrence

#Emptiness Quotes #Overzealous Quotes

“The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits-men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for”
“For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.”
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.”
“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.”
“I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.”

Source : "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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