W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
"The pool", p. 140
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“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”
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Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
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Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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"Mrs Albion You've Got a Lovely Daughter", from The Mersey Sound (1967).
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
As quoted in The God Particle (1993) by Leon Lederman – ISBN 978–0–618–71168–0
Context: The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had long seemed unlike. Faraday did this when he closed the link between electricity and magnetism. Clerk Maxwell did it when he linked both with light. Einstein linked time with space, mass with energy, and the path of light past the sun with the flight of a bullet; and spent his dying years in trying to add to these likenesses another, which would find a single imaginative order between the equations between Clerk Maxwell and his own geometry of gravitation When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought: beauty he said, is "unity in variety." Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature — or more exactly, in the variety of our experience.
Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/gsens10.txt), preface <br class="br">Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.
“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author
Dunn, Adam. " In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when http://web.archive.org/web/20010625162920/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/" cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/ on 2001-06-25). <br class="br">Interviews <br class="br">Context: More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera