"It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight."

-- Timothy B. Tyson

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cake Quotes

“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
“Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.”
“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
“I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.”
“Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”
“My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.”

Source : "McClellan: President practices 'self-deception'". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.
“A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.”

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