We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish

David Hume

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Earl Nightingale

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Jodi Picoult

Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.

Michael Brooks

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

You die in the middle of your life.

John Green

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

B. F. Skinner

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Jonathan Kozol

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Christian Lous Lange