"The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose."

-- Robert Darnton

#Mother Quotes #People Quotes #Toil Quotes

“The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”

Source : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.”
“I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.”
“As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.”
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.”

Source : "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by Jon Hochschartner, theredphoenixapl.org. February 10, 2012.
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
“When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.”
“Your gut is your inner compass.”

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