Spare Parts Book Quotes & Sayings

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments. — Werner Heisenberg

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. — Pliny The Elder

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve. — Paolo Di Canio

Even Karenin, who might well have turned out to be a flat caricature with his stick-out ears and cracking knuckles, is endowed with a complex personality as the other characters see him differently on different occasions: when Anna sees him at the Petersburg station, when he is at his government desk, when his son recoils from his embrace, when he is at the interview with his divorce lawyer, when — Leo Tolstoy

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. — Viktor E. Frankl

When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems. — Nirmala Srivastava

I went to Wimbledon before I could walk. It's just been a lifelong passion. — Anna Wintour

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. — C.S. Lewis

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse. — Carine Roitfeld

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job. — Ben Horowitz

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