"The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can."

-- Moses Mendelssohn

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“He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.”
“Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.”
“I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.”
“My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.”
“Wickets are like wives, you never know which way they will turn!”
“Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.”
“Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.”
“I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.”

Source : "'The troops thought: this guy's got balls'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2006.

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