"I don't have time to worry about looking cool."

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Jane Leeves

“I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.”
“My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind”
“The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.”

Source : "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.
“Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.”
“As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.”
“Has every oyster a different taste?”
“It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.”
“I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!”

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