"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."

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H. G. Wells

#Law Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...”
“In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free”
“Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.”
“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”

Source : "Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson". Physics World, July 10, 2004.
“Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.”
“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.”

Source : Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books
“Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.”
“Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagasâ€”why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" Â "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" Â "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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