"The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves."

-- H. G. Wells

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“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.
“I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.”
“Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.”
“One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.”
“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”
“I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.”
“I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.”

Source : Source: popgeeks.net
“Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.”

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