"If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given."

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Source : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

Nelson Goodman

#Understanding Quotes #Given Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).”
“There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.”
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
“I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.”
“For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.”
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.187, Penguin
“For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.”
“STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.”

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