"This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious."

-- Nathan Farragut Twining

#Real Quotes #Flying Quotes #Visionaries Quotes

“Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.”

Source : "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.”
“Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.”
“In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.”
“It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.”
“People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”

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