Huet Quotes

#1. Huet presents arguments against causality that are quite potent - he states, for instance, that any event can have an infinity of possible causes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace

Michel Faber

#3. Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#4. Solzhenitsyn writes: 'Shalamov's experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own, and I respectfully confess that to him and not me was it given to touch those depths of bestiality and despair toward which life in the camps dragged us all.

Anonymous

#5. On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

Kate Zambreno

#6. Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

John C. Maxwell

#7. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad

#8. But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

John Leeson

#9. I wake up every morning thinking ... this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

Anita Roddick

#10. The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

#11. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough

Colleen Carroll Campbell

#12. Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

John Calvin

#13. In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

Tim Allen

#14. There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

William Wordsworth

#15. My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.

Thomm Quackenbush