"This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past."

-- C.P. Snow

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“You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?”
“In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.”
“Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.”
“Everything I was doing when I didn't have deals was preparing me for when I did”
“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”

Source : "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.
“If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremismâ€”I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.”
“Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.”
“Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.”

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