"Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean."

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Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

James Richardson

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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.”
“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.”
“Life is short and so is money.”
“When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.”
“The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.”
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed”

Source : "The Rediscovery of the Mind". Book by John Searle, 1992.
“I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.”

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