"Dead metaphors make strong idols."

“I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.”

“We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.”

“I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.”

“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18

“A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.”

“Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.”

“I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”