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“For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .”
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“As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.”
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“The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.”
Source : James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush (1995). “Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On "avoiding All Personal Enquiries" of Molecules”, p.205, Lehigh University Press
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“Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”
Source : "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.
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“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
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“In everything, there is a share of everything”
Source : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.54, University of Toronto Press
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“What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.”
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“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
Source : "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.
