"I cannot pretend i am not without fearâ€¦"

-- Oliver Sacks

“I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.”
“Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.”
“A drowning man will clutch at a straw.”
“In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
“In terms of - my relationship with so many, many young people. I would - I would guess that there are many young people who would come forward. Many more young people who would come forward and say that my methods and - and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. And I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped. There are many that I didn't have - I hardly had any contact with who I have helped in many, many ways.”

Source : "Jerry Sandusky: 'I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped'". www.nydailynews.com. November 15, 2011.
“I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.”
“A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.”

Source : "And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Andrew Frothingham, Ashton Applewhite, and Tripp Evans, p.469, 1992.
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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