"I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help."

-- William Booth

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“If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?”
“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”
“Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.”
“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
“The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.”
“If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.”
“The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.”
“Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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