"...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great."

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Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.519, Cosimo, Inc.

Oliver Heaviside

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“I smoked ***** for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that ***** should be legal”
“It's been over a year since they've graduated, but neither of the Bush twins have found any work. Why don't they sign up (for military service in Iraq)? Do they hate America, or just freedom in general?”
“If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.”
“It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.”
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.”
“I deliberately never read about films before I see them.”
“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.”
“I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.”

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