"...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?"

-- Tom Stoppard

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“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.”
“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”

Source : "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.
“Dawkinsâ€™s problem is that he doesnâ€™t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument â€“ though obviously I donâ€™t think he is â€“ but if youâ€™re going to show that he is, you first need to understand what kind of argument he is giving, and thus what kind of mistake heâ€™d be making if heâ€™s made one at all.”
“If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.”
“Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.10
“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”
“The heart is willing, the head is willing but the body's had enough.”
“I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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