"Tell me where it is gone â€” then I will tell you where it came from."

-- Hasan of Basra

“Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”
“To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.”
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isnÂ´t just for registering pleasure and pain. ItÂ´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We donÂ´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.”
“He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.”

Source : Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”
“An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.”
“There should be choice in healthcare.”
“What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.”

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