"I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all."

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Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “Death of an Old Sinner”, p.245, Open Road Media

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#World Quotes #Today Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,”
“Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.”
“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press
“The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.”
“In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'”
“Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.”
“I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.”
“I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.”

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