"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

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Source : Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.

Lord Acton

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“I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.”
“Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.”
“Before I die, I want to be somebodyâ€™s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

Source : Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin
“In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first published Euler gives no proof. In place of a proof, he offers an inductive argument: he verifies the relation in a variety of special cases. There is little doubt that he also discovered the theorem, as many of his other results, inductively.”
“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”

Source : "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds". Season 6, Episode 18: "Lauren", March 16, 2011.
“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
“Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.”

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