"Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things."

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Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

George Edward Woodberry

“The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.”
“The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.”
“Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.”
“I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.”

Source : "I hope we'll achieve the political legitimacy of the games industry". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
“I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.”
“I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.”

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