"There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application..."

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Lord Kelvin

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“Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics â€“ and it's as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers â€“ called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit â€“ your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.”
“Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster
“The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.”
“When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.”
“If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.”
“When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.”

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