"... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes

“Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.”
“The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.”
“The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this Blonde Angel Image. The rebel in me demanded a new color.”
“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”

Source : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan
“Life's too mysterious to take too serious.”
“I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.”
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”
“I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.”

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