"Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?"

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#East Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Potatoes Quotes

“Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.”
“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.”

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK
“If you donâ€™t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid societyâ€¦So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. Thatâ€™s a problem.”
“We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. Thatâ€™s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press
“Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.”
“A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.”
“But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. Itâ€™s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.”

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