"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance."

-- William Gilbert

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“You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin
“A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!”

Source : Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.50
“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”
“Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is”
“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”

Source : "Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays". Book by Keith Stern, 2009.
“The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.”
“Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.”
“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.”

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