"though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience."

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Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

Edith Hamilton

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“In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.”
“That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.”

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“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”
“I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.”
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.”
“Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.”
“I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.”

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