“The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“Love is fragile . . . but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love words, the tendernesses learned, are treasured up for the next lover.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

“Analogy points in this direction, and though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“The first step—in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come—is to teach our men to shoot.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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