"True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries."

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Source : Franz Cumont (2013). “Astrology and Religion”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

Franz Cumont

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“We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.”
“The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”
“Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.”
“If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.”
“When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.”
“We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.”

Source : Salley Vickers (2008). “The Other Side of You: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan
“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.”
“I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.”

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