"But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man."

-- Galileo Galilei

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“Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.”
“I just always had energy and my energy came from G-O-D! But I never needed anyone to get me going because I always had that energy.”
“Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.”
“It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The best songs I find always come from the subconscious, like when you don't think. Not to be pretentious about it, but usually songs just blurt out rather than thinking about it. I never write lyrics and then do a song, I find that really hard - that's like a real skill.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

Source : "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)
“Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.”
“Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.”

Source : James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”
“I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.”

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