"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."

-- Andre Maurois

#Freedom Quotes #Learning Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.”
“An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”
“I think, therefore I laugh.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.2, Hill and Wang
“Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.”
“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.”
“I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.”
“We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base: irrationalism. We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something--and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason and a view of man as a rational being.”
“Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.”

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