"Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence."

-- Mary Hesse

#Practice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Dogma Quotes

“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”
“Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done.”

Source : "No such thing as a bad look". Interview with Sam Alipour, www.espn.com. April 4, 2013.
“the soul of conversation is sympathy”
“Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.”

Source : "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.
“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”
“The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.”
“Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.”
“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Source : Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”

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