"The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity."

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Source : "Saturn and its System". Book by Richard Anthony Proctor, (2nd edition), Chapter 2, p. 32, 1882.

Richard A. Proctor

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“This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.”
“There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.”
“I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.”

Source : "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.
“I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.”
“Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.”
“Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.”
“I'm going to live forever, or die trying !”
“Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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