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"Einstein’s violin playing is excellent, but he does not deserve his world fame: there are many others just as good"
— Berlin Music Critic in 1920s--why we all need editors
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"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation"
—
Charles Darwin
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"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
—
George Orwell
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"George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to."
—
John O'Hara
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
—
Eleanor Roosevelt
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women
7,232 people liked it
"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in."
—
Wallace Stegner
tags:
environment
20 people liked it
"The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. "
—
Mary Roach
(
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
)
25 people liked it
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