"Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it."

-- Samuel Johnson

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“My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.”
“My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.”
“Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?”
“The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.”
“I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.”

Source : "Russia at War, 1941-1945" by Alexander Werth, (p. 779), 1964.
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33
“If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.”
“I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.”

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