Problemata Mundi Quotes & Sayings

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. — Susan Polis Schutz

The pure heart that sorrow cleaves
Is more fragile than autumn leaves — Yasser Kashef

It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough. — Martti Ahtisaari

Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard guessed it had been laid out eight hundred years ago so that noble guests could ride their horses directly into the bedchamber and bring all of their squires and wolfhounds with them too. — Neal Stephenson

Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections. — Daniel C. Dennett

Free will is not always the most important thing — Robert J. Sawyer

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment. — Mason Cooley

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz

In the Interdependency, with its religious and social ethos of interconnectedness combined with a guild-centered, monopolistic economy, they'd created possibly the most ridiculously complex method of ensuring the survival of the species they could have devised. Bolting on a formal caste system of nobles intertwined with a merchant class, and common workers underneath, complicated proceedings even further. And yet it worked. It worked because on a social level, apparently enough people wanted it to, and because at the heart of it, billions of humans living in fragile habitats prone to mechanical and environmental breakdowns and degradation, and with limited natural resources, were better off relying on each other than trying to go it alone. Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive. Except — John Scalzi

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. — James Whistler

Their casual discussion of the characteristics of the man who had shown interest in their mother had seemed unreal to her. — Musharraf Ali Farooqi