"All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist."

-- Harold Jeffreys

#Serious Quotes #Would Be Quotes #States Quotes

“As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.”

Source : "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.
“Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”

Source : "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.
“New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,”
“Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.”
“The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.”
“I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.”
“Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.”
“And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise”

Source : Song: A Touch Of Paradise

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