"In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means."

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Source : Sir George Biddell Airy (1855). “Lecture on the Pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: Delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854”, p.4

George Biddell Airy

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“The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.371, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.”

Source : "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.
“I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.”
“When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.”
“I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.”
“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”
“Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?”

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