"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong."

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Source : Raymond M. Smullyan (2013). “The Tao Is Silent”, p.25, Harper Collins

Raymond Smullyan

#People Quotes #Critical Quotes

“What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?”

Source : Alice Steinbach (2010). “Educating Alice”, p.147, Random House
“Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.Â That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.”

Source : "Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author, Comes Out As Gay To Challenge Homophobic Laws", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.
“I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.”
“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.”
“I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.”
“I love the cancer spoon!”
“The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.”
“We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.”

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