"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."

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Source : Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

Ernst Mach

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“Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.”
“Courage is the antidote to danger.”
“You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.”
“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”

Source : Foreign Affairs, 2009.
“True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.”
“Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.”
“Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?”

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