"Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.”
“Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.”
“I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.”

Source : "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.
“The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.”
“I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.”
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.”
“At any given time, on our band Drive-by Truckers' shows there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. A lot of Republicans come see us. I've got many friends and family that are Republicans, so our following definitely cuts across the political lines and all of that. Which puts us in the unique position of not just preaching to the converted. I respect and value that.”

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