"I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written."

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Source : William Jones (1821). “Letters: Chronologically Arranged from Lord Teignmouth's Collection”, p.170

William Jones

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“My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.”
“And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.”

Source : "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.”
“Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.”
“Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.”

Source : Screen Junkies Interview, www.screenjunkies.com.
“I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.”
“My advice on-set is to make every day better than last one. Change is good.”
“If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.”

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