"By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love."

-- Michael Lesy

#Memories Quotes #Sake Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.”
“You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion.”
“The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.”
“We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.”
“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,”
“It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.”
“So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.”

Source : Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”
“First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .”

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