"Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art."

-- Robert Burchfield

#Art Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.”
“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”

Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.
“We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution â€” like, what do we want to be when we grow up?”
“My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now Iâ€™m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.”
“She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.”
“Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.”
“Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism.”
“There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.”

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