"If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain."

-- Cassius Jackson Keyser

#People Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Half Quotes

“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”
“And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.”

Source : "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.
“My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.”
“Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.”
“Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.”
“I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.”

Source : "Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.
“Welcome to the church of me.”

Source : Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996
“Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.”

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