"The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof."

-- Zeno of Elea

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“Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a crisis. That's why I think having regular meetings and conversation when there's no crisis, when you can build trust and a friendship and a relationship that allows for better dialogue and far more consequential deal-making can occur when a crisis does come up.”

Source : "Former Senate leaders: Here's how to make a deal" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.
“Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. If there is a way of grasping a reality in absolute rather than relative terms, of entering into it rather than taking up positions on it, of seizing hold of it without any translation or symbolism, then that way is metaphysics itself.”

Source : "Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the desert". Book by Britta Benke, January 27, 1995.
“Home run hitters strike out a lot.”
“Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.”

Source : Daniel Pinkwater (2011). “Lizard Music”, p.46, New York Review of Books
“To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage
“If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?”
“The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.”
“TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.”

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