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Terry Eagleton quote: "[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand;..."
[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists. Terry Eagleton
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing. Meg Cabot
A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents... John McPhee
Ann Druyan quote: "And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our..."
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? Ann Druyan
The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans whose shortcuts to an earthly paradise he debunks. The less these quacks are able to advance plausible objections to an economist’s argument, the more furiously do they insult them. Ludwig von Mises
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. Terry Jones
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? Terry Prachett
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Horses frighten me as much as chickens do? he said."
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do? he said. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. David Ogilvy
He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five... John Fowles
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right."Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. Charles Bukowski
The belief in God, is not a matter of common sense or logic or argument, but of feeling. it is as impossible to prove the existence of God as to disprove it. I do not believe in God. I see no need of such an idea . W. Somerset Maugham
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist? C. S. Lewis
Robertson Davies quote: "so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo..."
...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty. Robertson Davies
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it Herman Melville

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