"As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen."

-- Arthur Rimbaud

“The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.”

Source : "Lawmakers brawl over bayou district" by Jonathan Allen and Adam Snider, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.
“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”
“My dream is to save them from nature.”
“Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists wish to make in epistemology. I don't think this is right about Quine, but I'm certain it's not right about my own view. To the extent that I can show that talk of knowledge is firmly rooted within empirical theories where it plays an important explanatory role, I thereby demonstrate its naturalistic credentials.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.”
“Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.”

Source : Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (1990). “The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman”, New York : E.P. Dutton
“Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”
“It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them.”

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