"The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states."

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Source : Hans Reichenbach, Maria Reichenbach (1991). “The Direction of Time”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Hans Reichenbach

#Past Quotes #Order Quotes #Isolation Quotes

“You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.”
“Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the EldunarÃ... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.”
“Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.”
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creedâ€”that has nothing to do with the business of the State.”

Source : Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Constituent Assembly, August 11, 1947.
“War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.”
“The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,”
“The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.”
“Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.”

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