"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay."

-- Mark Twain

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“Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150
“Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.”
“Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming." Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. "Are you saying that I'm not a charmer?" "You are very dear to me, but you have all the savoir faire of a wildebeest," Kami told him. "A wildebeest," Jared repeated. "A dashingly handsome wildebeest," Kami assured him.”
“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
“I did used to like trampolining, but Iâ€™m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and Iâ€™ve had three children.”

Source : "Tamsin Greig: Green Goddess". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 05, 2006.
“I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.”
“It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press
“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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