"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines"."

-- Chesty Puller

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“In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.”
“The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand”
“As far as the path of [Bill] Goldberg and all his ultimate success, I don't think any of that was planned. It was all organic. All of it was so different.”

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“I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.”
“What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.”

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“without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.”
“Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.”

Source : Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing
“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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