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Quotes by English Authors
"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization."
"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
"The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown."
"It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging."
"But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure."
"It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature."
"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks."
"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers."
"I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else."
"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."
"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
"A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us."
"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."
"People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all."
"These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly."
"I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier."
"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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