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John Playfair

"Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same."

Source : John Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.415

John Playfair

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“I am a missionary, heart and soul.”
“Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.....”
“When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here, is because of the drug war and this idea of adding another five years, another 10 years, you know, like it means nothing to the people involved. It certainly does nothing for crime prevention - what problem are we hoping to solve?”
“When I say that I don't know what my next thing is, I don't. I'm just gonna read scripts, and if I see something that jumps out at me, I'm just gonna call my agents and say, "Please get me in so I can audition for this." You gotta sing for your supper. It never stops.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”
“Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend Â£45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.”
“For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.”

Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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