"Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The MÃ©canique CÃ©leste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est Ã isÃ© a voir' [it is easy to see]."

-- W. W. Rouse Ball

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“I was country when country wasn't cool.”

Source : Song: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Album: Barbara Mandrell Live
“The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.”

Source : "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.
“The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.”
“Beautiful is dangerous.”
“Frugality without creativity is deprivation.”
“I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that.”
“I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.”
“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”

Source : "Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time".

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