"Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations."

-- Jean Piaget

#Acquisition Quotes #Accommodations Quotes #Assimilation Quotes

“I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.”
“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.”
“Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.”
“Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.”
“Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing?”
“Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!”
“Socialism is a monster, which will die.”

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