"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...”
“Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.”
“It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption”

Source : "The Systems Approach" by C. West Churchman, (p. ix), 1968.
“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.”
“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars.”
“Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 23, 2017
“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.”

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