"The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be â€” this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable."

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Source : Frag. B 2.2-6, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Timaeus I", 345,

Parmenides

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“Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.”
“Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.”
“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”
“Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.”

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”
“To think the needle is going to protect you is as silly as thinking that drugs will make you healthy.”
“Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.”

Source : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
“A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.”

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