"I remembered how Albert Camus talks about the concept of resistance. The idea is that if you see that you cannot win, do everything in your power to resist. And that memory gave me the determination I needed.
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"Jenny Halsey: You are a good man.
Nick Morton: You don't know that.
Jenny Halsey: Yes, I do. There's good man inside of you fighting to come out. You saved my *life*. You gave me the only parachute without thinking.
Nick Morton: [taken aback] I thought there was another one.
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"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.
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--Sir William Henry Bragg, in Electrons & Ether Waves : being the twenty-third Robert Boyle lecture, on 11th May 1921, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. 11.
"Jesus H Christ
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--Theron Marcus Vining, Dad had just the one go-to curse, and when he used it you knew he was serious and gave him a wide berth
"After dinner, Rita turned to Theron and said: you missed your chance.
Theron: Chance to what (of course he replied).
Rita: Chance to avoid growing old. The only way to avoid growing old is to die young, and you missed your chance on that one.
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--Theron Marcus Vining, His response while watching something on TV, when a character does something foolish and his daughter asks aloud "why would anyone do that?"
"Don’t take moderation too far, moderation should not be taken to extremes.”
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"Sex is the sewer drain of a healthy body, sir! Any use of the sexual act other than procreation is a waste of vital energy! Wasted seeds are wasted lives!
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"The liver is the only thing standing between the smoker and death! Also certain other things have to be avoided... like, uh, feather beds, and romantic novels... and the, uh, touching of one's organs. Masturbation is the silent killer of the night! The vilest sin of self-pollution! It is the sin of Onan!
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"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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--Niels Bohr, Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper "Innovation in Physics"