"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
