"Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring."

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Source : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239

Thomas Overbury

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“I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.”

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“The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.”
“I understand that I'm a role model.”
“Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?”
“My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.”
“The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.”
“During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.”
“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”

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