"a writer is a foreign country"

-- Marguerite Duras

#Country Quotes

“Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.”
“Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !”
“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”

Source : "First Visit to Armenia". Book by William Saroyan, 1935.
“A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong”
“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.”
“The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.”
“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.7
“Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1939). “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ...”

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