"I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm"

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Girl Quotes #Sick Quotes #Alarms Quotes

“I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.”
“It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of thinking about my life. It showed me that things can disappear like the snap of your fingers. As a young guy you thought you were invincible and nothing could ever hurt you, and stuff like that, and living life to the fullest.”
“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press
“Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.”
“Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.”
“But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.80, Head of Zeus
“Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
“Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.”

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