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Thomas Sprat

"...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences; for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment to his Observations, to his own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought."

Source : "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".

Thomas Sprat

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“Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.”

Source : "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.
“Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.”
“I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.”
“My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.
“As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.”
“When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.”
“If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.”

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