"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Size Quotes #Doe Quotes #Territory Quotes

“There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I'm not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to the kids, but for most of us, we're not present to how much time we spend on those. Anything that wastes your time is a waste of money.”
“I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it.”

Source : Interview with Steve Rosenfield, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
“Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.”
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
“It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”
“I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.”

Source : Talk at MS Research, November 2004.

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