"[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'."

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Source : "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.

Peter Tait

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“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
“If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”
“It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.”
“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in Ð° room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”
“Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.”
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
“I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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