"Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.”
“Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.”
“I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.”
“In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didnâ€™t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when youâ€™re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and thatâ€™s it.”
“As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.”
“In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.”

Source : Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”
“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
“Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.”

Source : Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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