"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Logic Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Claims Quotes

“For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.”
“Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.”
“What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.”
“A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.”

Source : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.
“The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2016). “Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015”, p.144, Wesleyan University Press
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.”
“I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means”
“I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.”

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