"On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive."

-- Art Buchwald

#Morning Quotes #Alive Quotes #Happy To Be Alive Quotes

“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”
“My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.”

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“Feeling is the secret.”
“It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... [Third] Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.”
“Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.”
“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

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“There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.”
“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.”

Source : "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.

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