"Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child."

“To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.”

“Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.”

“When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.”

“Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.”

Source : Edmund Hamilton Sears (1885). “That Glorious Song of Old”

“I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.”

“There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332

“What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered”

Source : Sir Gavin De Beer (1971). “Homology: An Unsolved Problem”

“Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.”