"A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life."

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Source : In a letter from Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton, 9 March 1792: F. V. Barry (ed.) 'Maria Edgeworth: Chosen Letters' (1931)

Erasmus Darwin

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“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”

Source : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.”
“Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.”
“The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.”
“The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.”
“I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.”
“I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.”
“Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.”

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