"Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it."

-- Nicholas Hawksmoor

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“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.”
“Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”
“I don't expect success. I prepare for it.”
“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”
“Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.”
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
“We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job,”

Source : "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.
“But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.”

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