"People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Sunday Quotes #Clothes Quotes #People Quotes

“Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.”

Source : Max Wertheimer, Lothar Spillmann (2012). “On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization”, p.262, MIT Press
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
“I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.”
“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.”

Source : "America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic". Interview with Deb Reichmann, www.businessinsider.com. January 01, 2014.
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”

Source : Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag
“It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.”
“The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.”
“Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.”

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