"Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of paintings is now illuminated; those who have seen the ring beset with gems of light are sufficiently disposed to spread their reputation; the purpose of this notice is merely to say that the Museum will be illuminated every evening until the public curiosity be gratified."

-- Rembrandt Peale

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“What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.”
“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”
“Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.”
“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.”
“My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.”
“They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.”
“At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.”

Source : John Daniel (2012). “Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone”, p.136, Counterpoint
“I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.”

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