"Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Light Quotes #Perception Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.”
“The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.”
“In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.”
“You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.”
“Good wares make good markets.”
“Paying isnâ€™t wrong, and being paid isnâ€™t wrong. Trampling other peopleâ€™s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.”
“Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.”
“No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.”

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