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• You could have a cheap car radio fitted while you waited, and if you turned your back for a couple of minutes, it would be removed while you waited as well.
  -- About King's Cross Statio...
• People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• Count the day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
  -- Franklin P. Adam...
• The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heave
  un, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....
• A young married couple had their first child. Their original pride and joy slowly turned to concern however, for after a couple of years the child had never uttered any form of speech.
  They hired the best speech therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, all to no avail....
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
• When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
  -- Maria Mitchell...