"It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Curiosity Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Excellent Quotes

“Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.”
“Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.”
“I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.”
“Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.”
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
“One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin
“Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.”
“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”

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