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Charles Sanders Peirce

"Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien rÃ©gime."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.”

Source : "PBS NewHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”
“When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.”

Source : "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.
“I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.”
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.”
“Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.”

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