All progress is experimental.

—John Jay Chapman

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About John Jay Chapman

Portrait of John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American writer and lawyer. He was most known for his essays and poetry.

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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore.

—Loren Eiseley

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

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20 May 2014 Added