"Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science."

-- William Stanley Jevons

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway." Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.”
“Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28
“A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.”
“Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”
“I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.”

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