"As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer."

-- Ruud van Nistelrooy

#Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes #Vans Quotes

“The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.”
“As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.”
“The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.”

Source : "United States v. Ginzburg, 383 U.S. 463". Dissenting opinion, 1965.
“Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.”
“It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.”
“To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.”

Source : Gerald James Holton (1986). “The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.183, CUP Archive
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”

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