Muchsimas Quotes & Sayings

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. — Patrick Ness

Life is INCONCLUSIVE but its about an everlasting FUTURE — Delma Pryce

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them? — Melina Marchetta

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. — Ron Finley

But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space, it often means that we will encounter cases in which the relationships we are studying did not hold up as well as we are accustomed to. The model will seem to be less powerful. It will look less impressive in a PowerPoint presentation (or a journal article or a blog post). We will be forced to acknowledge that we know less about the world than we thought we did. Our personal and professional incentives almost always discourage us from doing this. — Nate Silver

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. All law finds its first and ultimate truth in the eternal law. Law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all. — The Catholic Church

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. — Octavia Butler

The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you. — Massimo Vignelli

In the East, especially in contemplative traditions like those of Buddhism, being distracted by thought is understood to be the very wellspring of human suffering. — Sam Harris