"Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel."

-- John Dryden

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“To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.”
“But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps itâ€™s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise wonâ€™t come true.”
“If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.”
“It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.”
“There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.”

Source : "Problems in the Relations of God and Man" by Clement Charles Julian Webb, (p. 107), 1911.
“You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.”
“What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?”
“As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.”

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