"Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress."

-- Charles Kettering

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“I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.”
“Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.”
“It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.”
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”
“She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.”
“The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.”

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