"At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

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“In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.”
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.”

Source : Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”
“... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.”
“Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.”
“The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.”

Source : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.
“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”
“So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!”
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

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