"Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find."

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Source : "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.

Fritz Leiber

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“My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'”
“I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.”
“The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking their cues from other people's children. Because they accompany their parents' daily routine, homeschooled kids spend plenty of time interacting with people of all ages, which I think most people would agree is a far more natural, organic way to socialize.”
“A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.”

Source : Charles Fort (2013). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.”
“Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.”

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