"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself"

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Source : "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.

John Searle

#Simple Quotes #Style Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.”
“I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.”
“Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.”
“The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.”
“Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.”
“Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.”
“The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.”
“Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.”

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