"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe."

-- Charles Babbage

#Thinking Quotes #Criticism Quotes #May Quotes

“Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.”
“The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.”

Source : "John Humphrys: pro-Europe BBC shied away from immigration debate" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.
“I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“What you must dare: is to be yourself.”
“We've made mistakes, But we've made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can't come true? Tonight's another chance to start again. It's just another New Year's Eve, Another night like all the rest.”
“I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.”
“I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.”
“Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.”

Source : Peter Van Inwagen (1993). “Metaphysics”

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