"Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument."

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Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.64, Verso

Lewis H. Lapham

#United States Quotes #World Quotes #Argument Quotes

“Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.”
“There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.”
“One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.”

Source : Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.
“The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.”
“Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.”
“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.”
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”
“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”

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