"It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art.... ."

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Source : "The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot".

John Arbuthnot

#Art Quotes #Fall Quotes #Want Quotes

“Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.”
“Without literature, life is hell.”
“Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.”
“When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.”
“Toward the end of his life, GÃ¶del feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt GÃ¶del's gifts might be aborted.”
“Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction”
“My dancing days are past.”
“I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.”

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