"The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."

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Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag

Thomas Reid

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“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.”
“Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers”
“What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.”
“Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.”
“Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].”

Source : "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.
“The right brain is finally being taken seriously.”
“People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.”

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