"Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that."

-- Marissa Meyer

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“For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them.”
“Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.”
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”
“I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.”
“I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.”
“It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!”

Source : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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