"We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises."

-- Aristotle

#Atheism Quotes #May Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.”
“Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.”
“... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?”
“Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.”
“So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.”

Source : Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”
“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.”

Source : J.L. Carr (2012). “A Month in the Country”, p.121, New York Review of Books
“Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.”

Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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