"There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance."

-- Gilbert N. Lewis

#Real Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Different Quotes

“We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.”

Source : Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin
“My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.”
“People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.”
“To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?”

Source : "David Twohy Talks the Evolution of the Franchise, Returning to R-Rated Territory, Going to Underverse in Further Sequels, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Group Interview on the Set, collider.com. June 18, 2013.
“Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.”

Source : "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".
“Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.”

Source : "Number 789: Animal House". "Questionable Content" Comic Strip, questionablecontent.net.
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
“Make health care a right, not a privilege.”

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