"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language."

-- Michael Polanyi

#Vocabulary Quotes #Long Quotes #Use Quotes

“My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.”
“I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.”
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”

Source : "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.
“There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
“My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.”
“Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.”
“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
“It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.”

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