Bezanson Ab Quotes & Sayings

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs. — John Stuart Mill

But unlike all farmed meat, which requires the creation and maintenance of animals, dogs are practically begging to be eaten. Three to four million dogs and cats are euthanized annually. This amounts to millions of pounds of meat now being thrown away every year. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started. — Franklin Edgerton

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations. — Ken Ham

It is only inside abstraction and expression and chaos that he is alive. — Lidia Yuknavitch

only one ear. Patches — Fredrik Backman

Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these travelers could have been stone figures quarried from the architecture of an older time. — Cormac McCarthy

Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on? — Richard Dawkins

He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it. "It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out. — Douglas Adams