"There's no such thing as a 100-year flood."

-- Andrew Cuomo

#Years Quotes #Flood Quotes

“It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.”

Source : Gina Berriault (1996). “Women in their beds: new and selected stories”, Counterpoint LLC
“We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods.”
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.”

Source : Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.5, Innovations and Information
“I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.”

Source : Maurice Baring (1909). “Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches”
“We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.”
“Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.”
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

Source : Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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