"The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism"

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.”
“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”
“It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge
“The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he just glided past four of our apprentices as if they weren't even there, then he put the ball in the back of the net. I just thought 'This kid's an absolute natural'”
“The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.”

Source : "A Source Book in Mathematics". Book edited by David Eugene Smith, "A Memoir on Algebraic Equations, Proving the Impossibility of a Solution of the General Equation of the Fifth Degree" (1824), 1929.
“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”

Source : David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.”

Source : Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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