"Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account."

-- John Dewey

#Names Quotes #Matter Quotes #Void Quotes

“I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me becauseâ€”if you want to be my mateâ€”I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles”
“He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.”
“When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.”
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
“There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.”
“You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!”
“The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.”
“If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.”

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