"My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way."

-- Charles Dickens

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“Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.”
“My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.”

Source : Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.70
“...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.”
“The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.”

Source : A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)
“I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.”
“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.”
“The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.”
“My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.”

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