"Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement -Â that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic."

-- Charles Fort

#Mean Quotes #Magic Quotes #World Quotes

“Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.”

Source : Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”
“The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.”

Source : George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall
“In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!”
“I am the son of an illiterate father and mother”
“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.”
“I love my fans! My job would not be what it is without them.”
“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”
“In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.”

Source : "Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher". Book by Davis Baird, R.I.G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann, 1998.

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