"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."

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Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

Charles Dudley Warner

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“The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.
“Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.”
“Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.”
“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”
“I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.”
“In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it”
“The heart of science is measurement.”
“It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of thought. It only becomes possible at all after the mathematical notation has, as a result of genuine thought, been so developed that it does the thinking for us, so to speak.”

Source : Gottlob Frege, J. L. Austin (1980). “The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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