"Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.”
“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”
“The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.”
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
“When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.”
“I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.”

Source : Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”
“I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.”

Source : "Kelly Lynch, Still Waiting For Her Hitchcock". Interview with Lyall Bush, www.moviemaker.com. July 3, 1997.
“He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.”

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