"For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles."

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Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.18

Charles Babbage

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“The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.”

Source : Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press
“I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.”
“Anger manages everything badly.”
“People think updos are so hard, but they're not. Your hair should look tousled and undone. If I'm in a mood to go out and feel hot and sexy, I want long hair that I can feel on my back. But I also like bed head. Ill usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I wont even wash it. Ill wait until it smells.”
“Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.”
“But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.”
“Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.”
“The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.164, Spectra

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