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Quotations

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
— William Shakespeare
Hamlet 4.5.78-9,
English poet and playwright (1564 - 1616)
“ Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.”
— William of Ockham
Ockham's Razor (loose translation),
14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar (1285 - 1347)
“ We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”
— Sir Isaac Newton
Ockham's Razor (variation),
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher (1643 - 1727)
“ You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
“ `Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4,
English poet (1809 - 1892)
“ I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
— William Butler Yeats
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,
Irish prose writer, dramatist and poet (1865 - 1939)
“ The mind suffers and the body, cries out.”
— Godfather (the movie)
Godfather III,
“ Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.”
— William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis,
English poet and playwright (1564 - 1616)
“ Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
— Godfather (the movie)
American art historian (1865 - 1959)
“ A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American author (1896 - 1953)
“ Cogito ergo sum”
— René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer (1596 - 1650)
“ In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.”
— René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer (1596 - 1650)
 
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