"The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world."

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Source : Louis Agassiz (1870). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.42

Louis Agassiz

#Woven Quotes #World Quotes #Common Quotes

“There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.”
“Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.”

Source : "A Careful Writer Stalks the Truth About Scientology" by Charles McGrath, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2013.
“Every time you have a crisis in a country you have an extreme wing coming up and proposing solutions. The way to fight them is by doing lots of work teaching people that every time these fascist systems gained power they ended up with big tragedies - lots of blood, lots of police, and lots of misery.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.”

Source : Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books
“The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.”
“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.”
“Family is everything.”
“To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair”

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