"We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense."

-- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#Common Sense Quotes #Example Quotes #Use Quotes

“I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.”
“If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.”
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.”
“Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.179
“I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.”

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“Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?”
“All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.”

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