"I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained."

-- John Aubrey

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“The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.”
“We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.”
“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.”
“If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.”
“Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.”
“Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?”
“Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.”
“By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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