"Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?"

-- Gertrude Stein

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,â€ Turing had advised. â€œRather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”
“Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble”
“Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.”
“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”
“No two people see things the same way.”

Source : "PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". Interview with Betsy Rothstein, thehill.com. September 8, 2008.
“The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.”

Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan
“I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.”
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”

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