"Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about."

-- Ray Kurzweil

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!" "Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.”
“The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.”
“We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.”

Source : "Noem Criticizes 'Expensive and Ineffective' Programs". www.mitchellrepublic.com. March 10, 2011.
“The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press
“Soul music is timeless.”
“The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.”
“I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.”
“I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'”

Source : Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser (1836). “The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser”, p.166

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