"The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history."

-- Ha-Joon Chang

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“I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.”
“When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.”
“I care about the children of Detroit.”
“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”

Source : Donald Ray Pollock (2011). “The Devil All the Time”, p.66, Random House
“Progress is impossible without change”
“Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.”
“The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.”
“The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”

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