"Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Science Quotes #Light Quotes #Balls Quotes

“They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.”
“I know I can't stay here forever”
“We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.”
“The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.”
“I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.”
“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
“Kids, she says. When theyâ€™re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, youâ€™re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, itâ€™s just the opposite. After that, youâ€™re either a liar or a fool or a villain.”
“Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.”

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