"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

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Source : Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

Samuel Johnson

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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
“Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.”

Source : "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.
“You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.”
“Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.”
“These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.”
“There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.”
“Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Take Your God And Shove Him", www.youtube.com. August 21, 2008.
“If you don't think you're funny, no one else will.”

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