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“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.”
Source : 1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.
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“Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to Darwinian theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics, or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations and experiments of their objectivity, makes them biased, and, moreover, creates false problems.”
Source : "Evolution of living organisms: evidence for a new theory of transformation" by Pierre-Paul Grasse, Academic Press, (p. 7), 1977.
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“Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”
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“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”
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“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”
Source : Bich Minh Nguyen (2008). “Stealing Buddha's Dinner”, p.92, Penguin
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“Dancers are the athletes of God.”
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“I could have kissed you months ago, but it wouldn’t have meant anything. I wished for you to see me. And want me. So…did you mean it?†“Yes,†I said, and some unnamed tension inside me eased. “I see you, Tod.”
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“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”