"He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

-- John Ray

#Writing Quotes #Ink Quotes #Use Quotes

“My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.”
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
“Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.”

Source : Gerald Durrell (2011). “Catch Me a Colobus”, p.165, Pan Macmillan
“You will come to agree with me.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “Chasing Vermeer”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.
“Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.”
“Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”

Source : Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
“As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?”

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