"People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes."

-- Garth Stein

#People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black
“An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.”
“There was this large group of people that we were talking about on the first album - "The Youth" - but we didn't really know what to tell them. We still don't know what to tell them, but we want to make it seem like maybe there's something we know that they want to know, too.”
“The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.”
“Kissing power is stronger than will power.”
“If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.”
“I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.”
“By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.”

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