"High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it."

-- James Anthony Froude

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“Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.72
“I'm 85, and I'm still a sexual being, or a sensual being.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.”
“Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.”
“I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.”
“When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner (2013). “The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.28, Springer Science & Business Media
“Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.”
“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”

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