"Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality."

“To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

“Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.”

“Name 12 players better than me.”

“I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.”

Source : "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

“I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.”

Source : "The view from Hastings". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

“A big part of making a good record is really getting a vibe, and a vibe is a mysterious thing. The vibe kind of exists in the air in the room. It's not just all the stuff you put on there, and the specific notes and arrangements and all that. That's like half of it. The other half is just the air, and just the spirit.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “The Great Conversers, and Other Essays”, p.50

“I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.”