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Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#call #discovering #faculty #innate #laws

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#appeared #constant #earlier #forms #heat

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#culture #does #infinity #make #want

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. ↗

— Johanna de Silentio

#growing-up #inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#consult #find #i #impulses #often

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert. ↗

— John Hench

#dessert #dining #got #idea #into

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#against #becomes #certain #certain level #difficult

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #crimes #double-standards #fidelity #gender

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult. ↗

— Florence Henderson

#been #difficult #easy #events #life

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit. ↗

— Martin Henderson

#about #accent #along #american #american accent