"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."

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Source : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

Edmund Burke

#Feelings Quotes #Delight Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.”
“If I persist long enough I will win.”
“Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?”
“I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.”

Source : "Interview With The 6th Day Director Roger Spottiswoode". Interview with Scott Brake, www.ign.com. November 17, 2000.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Source : "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.
“I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.”
“Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.”
“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”

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