"War among men defiles this world."

-- T. S. Eliot

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“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”
“The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.”
“The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.”

Source : George Johnson (2010). “Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order”, p.326, Vintage
“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”
“The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.”
“At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.”

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