"If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability."

-- Hilary Kornblith

#Reliability Quotes #Use Quotes #Facts Quotes

“But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leavÂing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.”
“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.”
“Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?”
“Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.”
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
“A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.”

Source : "Photographs Not Taken". Book by Will Steacy, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
“I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.”
“Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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