"The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.”
“We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.”
“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.”

Source : POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.
“Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.”
“And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.”
“While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.”

Source : "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
“Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.”

Source : John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.165, Pan Australia

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