"All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them."

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Source : James Hopwood Jeans (1944). “The Mysterious Universe”, p.114, CUP Archive

James Jeans

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“Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.”
“You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.”
“I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped.”
“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”

Source : "The Power of Six". Book by Pittacus Lore, 2011.
“I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”
“To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.”

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