"Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute."

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Source : Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”

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“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”
“Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.”
“I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.”

Source : "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
“To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith”
“I brought the music out to L.A., and the producer Tommy LaPuma heard it and he said - "Man, I love it. Let's do it. Let's record it." I said, "Okay, where's the band?" He said, "We don't have a band. We want it to sound exactly like your demo." I said, "Well, I played all the instruments on the demo." You do that when you're making demos. You got your guitar, you got your sax. He said, "Well, I want it to sound just like that, so get all your instruments out here." So I ended up playing all the instruments.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.”

Source : "The Simpsons (Homerpalooza)". TV Series, May 19, 1996.
“The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.”

Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics and Pastoral Theology”
“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”

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