"Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Francoise Mouly

#Emotional Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Tears Quotes

“Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.”
“If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.”
“Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon”
“We will not fall, we will not fail; for our homes will be founded on Jesus Christ.”
“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”
“I've busted a million Europeans”
“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Source : Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
“Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have.”

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