"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that thatâ€™s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isnâ€™t insane. We are only doing philosophy."

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.”
“Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.”
“I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.”
“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion.”
“To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.72, Northwestern University Press

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