"More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up."

-- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

#Special Quotes #Bait Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.”
“I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.”

Source : "Rob Portman said to be on short list for Romney vice president" by Michael Leahy, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)
“Monogamy is a huge time-saver.”
“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”
“But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square”
“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”
“I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org

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