Quotes
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Good Reading
‘Wherever you go you will have the choice of good or bad reading, and as reading has such a lasting effect on the mind, you should try to read only good things.‘― Juliette Gordon Low
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Understanding Nature’s Secrets: Insights and Reflections
‘There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.‘― Robert Oppenheimer
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Understanding Gell-Mann: Giants versus Dwarfs
‘If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.‘― Murray Gell-Mann
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Vienna ahead of the curve
‘By the end of the century, Vienna had given birth to Viktor Adler’s socialism and Theodor Herzl’s Zionism. It was the home Sigmund Freud loved to hate and the political base for Karl Lueger, the city’s longtime mayor, whose heady mix of pupulism and anti-Semitism drew the rapt attention of the young Adolf Hitler. If…
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Swine
‘As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.‘― Proverbs 22
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Dirty Mind
‘I always start writing with a clean sheet of paper and a dirty mind.‘― Patrick Dennis
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Unexpected
‘The shepherd in Virgil sought for love and found him a native of the rocks.‘― Samuel Johnson
