"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one."

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Source : 'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

Lord Chesterfield

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“Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.”
“Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.”
“Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2010). “Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve: A Hunger Like No Other, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night, Pleasure of a Dark Prince”, p.1283, Simon and Schuster
“Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.”
“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?”
“I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.”
“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”
“Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.”

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