Doutrina Monroe Quotes & Sayings

From this arises the belief that the order of nature is all that there really is. But to draw that conclusion would be a mistake, for two reasons. First, the Lebenswelt is irreducible. We understand and relate to it using concepts of agency and accountability that have no place in the physical sciences; to use the idiom of Sellars, the Lebenswelt exists in "the space of reasons," not in "the space of law. — Roger Scruton

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. — Thomas Harris

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies. — Langston Hughes

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here. — Allen Iverson

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. — Michel De Montaigne

How pleasant to escape for an hour or two into the company of a treasured friend. — Julie Klassen

Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child. — Stuart Firestein

(Ben) Franklin was never content to let opportunity find him. — H.W. Brands

Ian was egotistical, perverted, and morally bankrupt, but he wasn't prone to overreacting about anything except involuntary abstinence. — Jeaniene Frost