"It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all."

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Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press

Hector Hugh Munro

#Optimism Quotes #Pessimism Quotes #Middle Quotes

“A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale”
“My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I donâ€™t see hallucinations, though.”
“A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.”
“I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.”
“I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.”
“It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.”
“Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.”
“That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.”

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