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"It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever."
"Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not."
"In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years."
"One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name."
"Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals."
"I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts."
"We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly."
"My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings."
"I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air."
"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."
"...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least."
"But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us."
"Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish."
"It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories."
"The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted."
"It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word."
"A hundred years from now? All new people."
"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."
"A hit, a very palpable hit."
"You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense."
