"the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."

-- Hannah More

#Silence Quotes #Variables Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.”
“If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.”
“I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.”
“Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.”

Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan
“I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!”
“What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.”
“The Bible just said â€˜Thou shalt not killâ€™, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
“Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that”

Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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