"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."

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Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

Oliver Lodge

#Prejudice Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Broads Quotes

“What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.”

Source : Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”
“When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.”
“The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.”
“I'm very affected by what I watch and read.”
“I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.”
“I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...”
“I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.”
“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

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