#pre

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe. ↗

— William Lyons

#cause #center #class #consensus #considered

Any day stands equal to the rest. ↗

— Heraclitus

#now #present #equality

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#ever #his #i #jefferson #judge

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. ↗

— Roger Maris

#hit #home #home runs #preparation #runs

I'm pretty much game for anything. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#game #i #much #pretty

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#approval #became #measure #national #national unity

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#death #disease #expression #interest #life

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#car #commitment #desire #drove #grand