"Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?"

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Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.18

Christiaan Huygens

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“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”

Source : Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.39, Read Books Ltd
“For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.”
“In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.”
“I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.”
“I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.”
“Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.158, Cambridge University Press
“I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.”

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