"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch."

-- Horace Walpole

#Song Quotes #Doe Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!”

Source : 1965 In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard',19 Jul.
“I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!”
“Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.”
“The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.”
“PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.”

Source : Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.
“Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.”
“I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.”
“The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?”

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