"He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches."

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Source : John Aubrey (1957). “Brief lives”

John Aubrey

#Fountain Quotes

“Sometimes, you know, I just feel like I want a Coke, and I drink a Coke.”
“Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.”
“I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.”
“I've been a Raider all my life.”
“Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.”
“If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.”

Source : Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.70, Penguin
“My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”

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