"A man destined to hang can never drown"

-- Regina Spektor

“When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.”
“This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.”

Source : Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Boston Jane: The Claim”, p.107, Yearling
“Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”
“There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world.”

Source : Roger Bacon (1928). “The Opus majus of Roger Bacon: a translation of Robert Belle Burke”
“I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.”
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
“Despair has its own calms.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.50, "F+W Media, Inc."

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