Kyriakoulis Yachting Quotes & Sayings

It is interesting that this thoroughness, which is a virtue, is often misunderstood. When someone says a thing has been done scientifically, often all he means is that it has been done thoroughly. I have heard people talk of the "scientific" extermination of the Jews in Germany. There was nothing scientific about it. It was only thorough. There was no question of making observations and then checking them in order to determine something. In that sense, there were "scientific" exterminations of people in Roman times and in other periods when science was not so far developed as it is today and not much attention was paid to observation. In such cases, people should say "thorough" or "thoroughgoing," instead of "scientific. — Richard Feynman

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better? — Charles M. Blow

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it. — Seth Godin

The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity. — Billy Graham

The main point about civility is ... the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place. — Zygmunt Bauman

with all our technology, with all the things that make our lives easier, there's a price to be paid. — Carol Purcell

You're worth fighting for. Maybe I'm getting there. Maybe I'm not the bad bet that I believed myself to be for so, so long. — Mia Sheridan