"Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision"

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Source : John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

John Ashbery

#Moments Quotes #Indecision Quotes

“If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.”
“Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.”
“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.”
“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!”
“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”
“Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.”
“... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”
“No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.”

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