"If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world."

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Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

Oliver Heaviside

#Self Quotes #World Quotes #Wave Quotes

“I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”
“Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1118, Vintage
“I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.”
“As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.”
“One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.”
“Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.”

Source : Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Harmony
“I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.”
“I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.”

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