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“In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Why are these historical observations interesting?...they suggest that we should be careful about attributing our distinction between philosophy and science to earlier thinkers…The examples I have given do raise an interesting question: Why is it that we tend to see such a radical break between philosophy and science, and, more important, should we? The question can be raised directly, without the need for history, as Quine has done. But history brings the point home in an especially clear way: It shows us an assumption we take for granted by pointing out that it is not an assumption everyone makes.”
― Daniel Garber, Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies”
― Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith