"Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice."

-- Boris Pasternak

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“Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.”
“Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

Source : Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174
“The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.”
“We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?”
“I always try to think in curves.”
“Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation.”
“a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (1991). “The Keeper of the Bees”, p.122, Indiana University Press
“Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.”

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

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