"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

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Arthur C. Clarke

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“Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.”
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”

Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
“If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.”
“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

Source : The Devil's Dictionary
“People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”
“I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.”
“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”

Source : Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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