"And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress."

-- Caleb Cushing

#Wall Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.Â If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.Â I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.Â It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.Â A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.Â Their eyes need to be dazzled.Â The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.”
“Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3
“Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.”
“I live a generally quiet life, as it were.”
“First thoughts are not always the best.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 787-790), 1922.
“If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.”
“Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.”

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