"I read my books aloud before they were published."

-- Beverly Cleary

“Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.”
“Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.”
“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.”
“Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.”

Source : Lewis Wolpert (1998). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.72, Harvard University Press
“People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.”
“Thereâ€™s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when youâ€™re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; itâ€™s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.”
“Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.”

Source : "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.
“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”

Source : "Bilbie v. Lumley and Others 102 ER 448". English case (2 East, 469), June 28, 1802.

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