"Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune."

-- Raymond Queneau

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“There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.35, Cambridge University Press
“Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.”
“The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.”
“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”
“Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.”
“Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.”
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.”
“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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