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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.


Benoit Mandelbrot


#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.


Murray Gell-Mann


#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.


John Mayall


#equally #favorites #important #impossible #life

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.


George Herbert Mead


#events #experience #future #however #including

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent your time in dusty libraries, catologuing other people's books instead of writing your own? What had become of the Ram, the Bull and the Lion, the example I gave you to emulate? Where above all is the Virgin, with her shining face and curling tresses, whom I entrusted to you'- what should I say? I should have an answer ready. 'Well, it was you who let me down, and I will tell you how. You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched. This cindery creature is what you made me.' To which he might reply: 'But you have had half a century to get over it! Half a century, half the twentieth century, that glorious epoch, that golden age that I bequeathed to you!' 'Has the twentieth century,' I should ask, 'done so much better than I have? When you leave this room, which I admit is dull and cheerless, and take the last bus to your home in the past, if you haven't missed it - ask yourself whether you found everything so radiant as you imagined it. Ask yourself whether it has fulfilled your hopes. You were vanquished, Colston, you were vanquished, and so was your century, your precious century that you hoped so much of.


L.P. Hartley


#past #present #age

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.


Emily Mortimer


#any #approach #baffling #begin #character

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.


John Naisbitt


#future #most #present #reliable #try

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.


Gamal Abdel Nasser


#blood #except #fire #force #forging

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.


Charles Olson


#heroes #imitation #present #retreat #will

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'


Katy Perry


#believe #great #i #interviews #like






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