"Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Space Quotes #Curves Quotes #Argument Quotes

“The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.”
“I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.”
“Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.”
“Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.”
“Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.”
“Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.”
“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
“I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.”

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