"It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace."

-- Ralph Linton

#Science Quotes #Development Quotes #Unusual Quotes

“Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.”
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”

Source : Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.12, Bantam
“[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.”
“Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers donâ€™t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, thatâ€™s grass! A pink blur! Thatâ€™s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.”
“I even fold this mans underwear and I like it!”
“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

Source : "Que Sera, Sanaa!". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. September 8, 2011.
“A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.”
“It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.”

Source : "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

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