"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

-- Jane Austen

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“If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.”
“The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.”

Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company
“To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows”
“And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.”
“For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.”
“I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.
“The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.”
“I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.”

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