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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

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In their friendship they were like two of a litter that can never play together without leaving traces of tooth and claw, wounding each other in the most sensitive places.

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Confronted with a film, the child hardly thinks at all... faced with some confused activity where human movement has pride of place. The beating of the heart, the to-and-fro of the eyes, supplant thought while the screen is showing the hero pursued by kidnappers or murderers and revolver shots explode in wads of cotton-wool.

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I hate guests who complain of the cooking and leave bits and pieces all over the place and cream-cheese sticking to the mirrors.

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She could not forgive her sorrow for being bearable and for taking its place, between despair and indifference, in a spiritual region which allowed of diversions, pleasures, scruples, and compensations.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: January 28, 1873
Died: August 3, 1954 (aged 81)
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