"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Comeback Quotes

“Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.”
“Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.”

Source : Humor & Caricature magazine, September 1995.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
“Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,”

Source : "Emotional Frank Thomas speech a Hall of Fame highlight" by Daniel Brown, www.mercurynews.com. July 27, 2014.
“Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.”
“Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.169, Lulu Press, Inc
“...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”

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