"Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language."

-- Charles Scribner IV

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“Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.”
“I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.”
“The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”
“The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.”
“I think when it comes to Anderson Silva, it comes down to his speed, his distance and his timing are impeccable. They are second to none and that's what makes him dangerous.”
“Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs”
“I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.”
“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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