"If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Granted Quotes #Theft Quotes #Refuse Quotes

“When in doubt, delete it.”
“It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology.”
“Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.”
“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”
“Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“You never know, lightning could strike.”
“I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.”

Source : "Behind the scenes" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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