"...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out."

-- David McCullough

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“Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefieldâ€™s outraged eyes. â€œWe seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sisterâ€™s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that Iâ€™ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.”
“Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.”
“I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.”
“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.”
“I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.”

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“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
“There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.”
“We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.”

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