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“It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.”

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J. C. Squire, a British poet, was born on April 2, 1884, and died on December 20, 1958. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound depiction of nature. more

“It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.”

Should Seems Given Causes Trouble Habit Eating Roots Medicine Drinking Medical Uncomfortable Consideration Disability Shelves Symptoms Pills Distressing Avalanches Eating And Drinking

Author:Lester Roloff

“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”

World Feels Humor Economy Greatness Serious Arise Height Faculty Nobility Afterthought

Author:Oscar W. Firkins

“I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.”

Achieve Future Predictions Pessimistic Interstellar

Author:Theodore von Karman

“Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.”

Thinking Prejudice Refuge

Author:Comtesse Diane

“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”

Firsts Literature Draws Breaths Vanity Complacency Outburst

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.”

People Country Felt Fate Perspective Thirds Meetings Ill

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.”

Life Humans Care Human Beings Normal Worthwhile Who Cares

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days, adds something to the invisible building.”

Life Years Book Life Is Influence Building Lessons Conversation Lays Add Invisible Block Rising Impress Another Life Edifice

Author:J.R. Miller

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb”

Stupid Dumb

Author:Petronius

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