"I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours."

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Source : "The Herschel Chronicle: the Life-story of William Herschel and his Sister". Book by Constance Anne Lubbock, Caroline Herschel, 102, 1933.

William Herschel

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“â€¦deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. Itâ€™s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.”
“One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.”
“Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. I write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.”
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.”
“A doctorâ€™s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.”
“To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.”
“While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.”

Source : "Terry Semel Joins SnagFilms’ Board, Invests in Online Distributor". www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2012.
“Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.”

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