"It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better."

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Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

Lauren Willig

#Battle Quotes #Usual Quotes #Sniping Quotes

“I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.”
“There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.”
“My bed is actually two king beds put together.”
“The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.”

Source : Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method”, p.60, Cambridge University Press
“If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.”
“Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.”

Source : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”
“If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.”

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