"The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought."

-- Ludwig Boltzmann

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“I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.”

Source : "Life, the universe and everything". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2012.
“There's more to life than cheek bones.”
“At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.”
“People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.”
“The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?”
“The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.371
“I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.35, Vintage

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