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Lawrence Hargrave

"My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump..."

-- Lawrence Hargrave

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“In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.”
“I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.”
“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
“Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.”
“People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.”
“Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.”

Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

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