"Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction."

-- Charles Babbage

#Country Quotes #Genius Quotes #Tuscany Quotes

“I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.”

Source : Letter to Daniel Fiske, February 4, 1863.
“The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.”
“Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.”
“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.”
“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”
“I love film. I'm a movie buff. So it really does pique my interest. For me, it all kinda bleeds together. The music, dance, the film, the cinematic effect ... and then I love comedy. And so I'd like to put it all together and then make something.”
“That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.”
“Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.”

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