"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Mean Quotes #Intuition Quotes #World Quotes

“Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.”

Source : Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation
“Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.”
“As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.”
“I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.”
“The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.”
“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

Source : "Olives, a Violent Romance That Resonates in the Arab World" by Magda Abu-Fadil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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