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“He who understands nature walks close with God.”
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“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
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“I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.”
Source : "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.
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“The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.”
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“How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.”
Source : Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Macmillan
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“If I ran the Web, you could email dead people.”
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“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”
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“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.”
Source : "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.