"In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it."

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Source : Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

Philip Gibbs

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“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
“Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.”
“SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.”
“Schools often get the teachers they deserve!”
“Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.”
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
“If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1879). “Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events”

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