"It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science."

-- Ernst Mayr

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“It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,”
“Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.”
“Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.”
“As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.84
“Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.”
“I love action films. It's my favorite genre.”

Source : "Til Schweiger on The Risks And Rewards Of Making Emotional Action-Drama 'The Guardians' (Exclusive)" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2012.
“I was raised that emotion was a good thing.”
“I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway." Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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