"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."

-- John Dewey

#Mind Quotes #Mark Quotes #Skepticism Quotes

“I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.”
“Only thing going through my mind is stay loose and stay fast.”
“Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”
“Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.”

Source : Amartya Sen (1981). “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight”
“Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.”
“I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [Â¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.”

Source : "Women and Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.

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