"But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores."

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Robert H. Jackson

#Doe Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“It gladdens me to know that Baldrâ€™s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved horns. The champion who comes into Odinâ€™s dwelling [Valhalla] does not lament his death. I shall not enter his hall with words of fear upon my lips. The Ã†sir will welcome me. Death comes without lamentingâ€¦ Eager am I to depart. The DÃsir summon me home, those whom Odin sends for me [Valkyries] from the halls of the Lord of Hosts. Gladly shall I drink ale in the high-seat with the Ã†sir. The days of my life are ended. I laugh as I die.”
“A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.”

Source : Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.
“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
“Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.”
“I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship”
“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.”
“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”

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