"Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow."

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Source : "Books for giving: science" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

David Deutsch

#Feelings Quotes #Cows Quotes #Logic Quotes

“As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.”

Source : Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.9, Routledge
“The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.”
“I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.”
“As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”

Source : "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.
“I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.”
“As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.”

Source : Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

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