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Thomas Huxley

"There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: "he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone." But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.”
“In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.”

Source : 'Moonlit Apples' (1917)
“I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.”
“For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.”
“One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.”
“I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.”

Source : J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.230, Latter-day Publishing
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.”
“There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!”

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