"What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely."

-- Robert Fripp

#Want Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes #Unlikely Quotes

“We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.”
“One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.”
“The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.”
“Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.”
“Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1866). “The person of Christ: the miracle of history, with a reply to Strauss and Renan, and a collection of testimonies of unbelievers”, p.5
“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.”
“In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.”

Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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