"If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it."

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Source : John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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“The best physician is also a philosopher.”

Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”
“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.”

Source : Andy Clark (2004). “Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
“I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.”
“The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.”

Source : John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460
“I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.”

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