"Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at present), I think it is best to choose such a denomination as means nothing of itself and thus can give no rise to any erroneous ideas. In consequence of this, as I did in the case of Uranium, I shall borrow the name for this metallic substance from mythology, and in particular from the Titans, the first sons of the earth. I therefore call this metallic genus TITANIUM."

-- Martin Heinrich Klaproth

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“When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.”
“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”

Source : Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books
“Years were passing through the spaces between moments.”
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
“When you experience your origin as a reality, you are happy. Be constant under all circumstances and relate to one thing - you are a part of Infinity and always lean on that power - then you'll never be unhappy.”
“We shall not always plant while others reap”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

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