"Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky."

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Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press

Alan Bradley

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“The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.”
“It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.”
“Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.”
“There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .”
“The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?”
“As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.”
“The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.”
“I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be.”

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