"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue."

-- Thomas Reid

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“My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.”
“Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business
“I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.”

Source : "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.
“I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.”
“The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.”
“People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.”

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