"[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House
“You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.”
“The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?”
“If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!”
“A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.”
“I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.”
“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”

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