"Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created."

-- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

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“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history.Â It is the companion that dogs our every step.”
“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
“Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.”
“With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Donâ€™t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that â€” I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James â€” But we've not got so far as names.”
“The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.”
“We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.”
“God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.”

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