"Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together."

“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”

“what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?”

“The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

“I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.”

“All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.”

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”

“Cats are fond of mooning.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat who Knew Shakespeare”, p.163, Penguin

“You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?”