"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

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Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

Joseph Epstein

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
“Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.
“Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.”
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
“Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding light. You know, "Oh, that Sleepless in Seattle bilingual something," like, it doesn't exist. I don't have it in my memory, and that's why I thought it was important to make it.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.”
“I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”

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