"Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!"

-- Frederick The Great

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“There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.”
“Fenway is the essence of baseball”
“When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.”
“The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.”
“It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.”
“By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.”
“Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.”
“I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.”

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