"When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing."

-- John Oliver

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“His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.”

Source : George Wilson (1851). “The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoverers of the composition of water”, p.186
“You photograph with all your ideology.”
“There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.”
“Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.”
“Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.”
“Did you play? It sounded very good.”
“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”

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