"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."

-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Average Quotes #World Quotes

“I want to be famous everywhere.”
“I hope to encourage people to take flight on their mats, in their lives, and in their hearts.”
“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.”
“We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.”
“Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press
“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
“Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.”

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