"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."

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Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

Simon Newcomb

#Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.”
“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”
“Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Jeary from Jul 19, 2016
“I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.”
“Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.”
“There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.”
“If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.”
“I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.”

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