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“For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.”
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“As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.”
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“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.”
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“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”
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“All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing”
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“Change is certain. Progress is not.”
Source : "From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, 1980.
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“I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.”
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“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”
Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press