"Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world."

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Leonard Michaels

#Stars Quotes #Believe Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.”
“You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.”
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself”
“Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.”
“Leave women to find their sphere.”
“I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.”
“The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences”

Source : William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.129

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