"Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes."

-- James Gleick

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“Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A good parent gives their child roots and wings.”
“Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.”
“It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.”
“Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.”
“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
“For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.”

Source : John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner
“Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.”

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