"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."

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Source : Song: Russians & Americans

Al Stewart

#Fall Quotes #Future Quotes #Past Quotes

“No-one is ever betrayed by true love.”
“From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.”
“And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.”

Source : Song: My Friends, Album: End of the Summer
“My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.”

Source : "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.
“[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number.”
“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”
“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
“Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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