"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

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Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan

Raymond Smullyan

#Astrology Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”
“A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.”
“If you love people enough, they will give you everything.”
“When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.”

Source : "Influential R & B singer, musician" by Randy Lewis, articles.latimes.com. January 19, 2012.
“All those men have their price.”

Source : Quoted in William Coxe Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1798).
“I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.”
“I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.”
“Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”

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