"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."

-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Chess Quotes

“If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.”

Source : "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.
“How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.”
“If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.”
“I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.”
“Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.”
“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
“Reality is a question of perspective;”
“There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black

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