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Willard Van Orman Quine

"The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

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“There is nothing you can to do make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is Unconditional, Impartial, Everlasting, Infinite, Perfect!”
“Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.”
“I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.”
“What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.”
“I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!”

Source : Said during the Battle of Flamborough Head, September 23, 1779.
“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
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Source : "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.
“When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pityâ€¦”

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