"The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them."

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Source : "The decline and fall of science". Book by Celia Elizabeth Green, 1976.

Celia Green

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“Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
“Don't be afraid to reach for the stars”

Source : Interview with Sean Traynor, mag.amazing-kids.org. April 2010.
“Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.”
“To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.”

Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”
“None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.”

Source : Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press
“I don't think blogs can make or break a candidate. I think they're going to be important to a certain degree. I think they can help somebody who's lesser known, somebody's who's lower down in the food chain politically. I think somebody like a Hillary Clinton doesn't necessarily need bloggers for people to know who she is and what she stands for. I think she's got all the - she's got a big enough soap box - a bigger soap box than she'll ever need that we could ever provide in the blog world.”
“Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

Source : "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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