"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."

-- Seth Lloyd

“A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”
“I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.”
“Always verify your references.”

Source : "Lives of twelve good men" by John William Burgon, Vol. 1, (p. 73), 1888.
“Youâ€™ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound menâ€™s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my ***** out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized Iâ€™d staked mine already.â€ He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. â€œIâ€™m yours now â€¦ Even if I screw this up, Iâ€™ll still be your screw-up.”
“Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”
“Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.”
“Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.”
“Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.”

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