"In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.”

Source : "Sadie Frost: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2010.
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
“Every man is a poet when he is in love.”
“The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent”
“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?”
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.”
“I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.”
“I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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