"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."

-- Charles A. Beard

#Life Quotes #Father Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”

Source : Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin
“I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.”
“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.”

Source : Introduction by Albrecht Durer (first lines) to Karl Popper "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge", 1963.
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
“Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.”

Source : Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.
“Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...”
“The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.”

Source : Lisa Lutz, David Hayward (2011). “Heads You Lose”, p.21, Penguin
“Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place â€” and still be home in time to have dinner.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2018

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