"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."

-- James F. Byrnes

#Our Generation Quotes #Land Quotes #Generations Quotes

“I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set”
“I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.”

Source : "Here’s The Most Remarkable Thing About The Universe, According To Bill Nye". Interview With Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.”
“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant â€œI try and I achieve.”
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
“What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.”
“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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