"Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)"

-- Francis William Aston

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“Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.”
“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”
“The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.”
“Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.”
“I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.”
“In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.”
“a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.”

Source : Jacqueline Winspear (2010). “Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”, p.116, Macmillan
“Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.”

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