"Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments."

-- Daniel Okrent

#Mind Quotes #Ears Quotes #Substance Quotes

“We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.”
“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.”
“Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin”
“Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.”

Source : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
“His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.”
“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
“The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.”

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