"The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature."

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William Petty

#Nature Quotes #Taken Quotes #Science Quotes

“I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.”
“I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.”
“Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.”
“It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22
“Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.”
“One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley
“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.19, Penguin
“We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.”

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