"In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile."

-- Theobald Smith

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.”
“Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.312
“Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.”
“I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.”
“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates...”
“The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.”
“This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.”

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