"My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light."

-- Alice Cary

#Song Quotes #Light Quotes #Sight Quotes

“The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.”
“I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.”

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“If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.”
“Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.”
“Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.”
“How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.189, Harvard University Press
“Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.”
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.

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