"Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Time Quotes #Order Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.”
“Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.”
“A lot of people are doubting us right now, ... But the reality is that we've lost two conference games on the last play of the game. . . . We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores running around out there, and they're good players. You look at us on paper, and I think we have the chance to develop into a very good football team this year and into next.”
“I just love the sheer mess of New York.”
“The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”
“If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.”
“Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.”
“In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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