"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."

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Source : Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

Cleveland Amory

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“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Source : "Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger". 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.
“Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.”
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.”
“People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.”
“It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.177, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.”

Source : "Geological Sketches". Book by Louis Agassiz, ch. 2 (pp. 31 - 32), 1870.
“Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.”
“whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.”

Source : Kay Boyle, Sandra Whipple Spanier (1988). “Life Being the Best & Other Stories”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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