Quotes
Authors
Gilbert Ryle

"Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable."

-- Gilbert Ryle

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“Cable is not a robot. The metal in his body is actually organic tissue. Ed and I have talked about this a lot. We liken it to a cancer that changes your body's cellular structure. Last time we saw him, his arm had been severed. It's back with a kind of force that will play a major role in this storyline. This is a battle inside Cable's body that he has waged since the first time he appeared.”
“Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.”
“We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.”
“If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.167, Macmillan
“My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.”
“Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?”
“It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.”
“Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.”

Source : "The Works of William Harvey, M.D". Book by Robert Willis, "The Life of Harvey", 1847.

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