"The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader."

-- Arthur Eddington

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“But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.”
“Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.”

Source : Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
“Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.”
“It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.”
“If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.”
“Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.”
“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.”
“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”

Source : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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