"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds."

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Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.398, Cambridge University Press

Michael Faraday

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“History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.”

Source : "Booker winner Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.
“Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.”
“Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.”
“Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.”
“We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.”
“I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.”
“You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.”

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.”

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