"Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs."

-- Michael Kinsley

#Mean Quotes #Air Quotes #Littles Quotes

“In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.”
“In the hurdles you have ten opportunities to improve; that's what's so cool about it.”
“Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.”
“I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”
“The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.”
“A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.”
“I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'”
“I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.”

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