"To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

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“The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold”

Source : 'Sunlight on the Garden' (1938)
“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.”
“Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.”
“There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.”
“Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?”
“You have to defend your honor. And your family.”
“One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.”
“I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”

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