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William Stanley Jevons

"I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me."

-- William Stanley Jevons

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“I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.”
“Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.”
“The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.”
“As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.”
“We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still donâ€™t know what to do.”
“She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.”
“As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.”
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day”

Source : Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.

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