"While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued."

-- Richard Baxter

“What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.”
“Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.”
“None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, of self-deception, of altruism, of concern of others, of concerns for ourselves and an interest in our bank accounts. And social policies have to be responsive to the complexity of who we are as people or else, like the war on drugs, they're simply going to fail.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.”
“Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.”
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
“I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.”

Source : "From Pulitzers to Tonys, David Lindsay-Abaire Turns Blue Collar Roots Into Art". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.

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