"Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do."

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Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Lawrence Fagg

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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

Source : Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)
“Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.”
“It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.”
“When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.”

Source : Harold Pinter (1993). “Party Time ; And, The New World Order: Two Plays”, p.27, Grove Press
“Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.”
“If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.”
“Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.”
“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....”

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