"Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw."

-- Josh Billings

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“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.”
“If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.
“Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.”
“Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.”
“In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.”
“Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.”
“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.”

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