"Dead men have no victory."

-- Euripides

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“Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.”
“My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?”
“I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.”
“Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.”
“To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.”
“Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity.”
“Sometimes being a little out of control makes the best music and allows others to blossom as well.”
“Life ... is a relationship between molecules.”

Source : Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.1168, World Scientific

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