"Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.”

Source : Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”
“Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.”
“Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.”
“This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.”

Source : Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker
“I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.”

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