"It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science."

-- George Gaylord Simpson

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“For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.”
“It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.”
“I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?”
“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”
“[...] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.”
“Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.”
“We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.26, Ballantine Books
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”

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