"We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear."

-- Frank P. Ramsey

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“I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.”
“The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.”
“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”

Source : Raymond Queneau (2000). “Zazie in the metro”, Penguin Books Ltd
“I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.”
“If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.”
“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”
“We are the result of the stimulus we receive.”
“[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.”

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