#anti

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#exhibits #labels #languages #meanings #museum

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#do you know #foolish #how #know #made

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet. ↗

— Ted Rall

#ground #most #pakistan #planet #state

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#advice #away #give #go #go away

I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#candy #connection #feel #i #i remember

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

#becomes #clearly #farther #group #individual

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#life #romantic-comedy #science-fiction #funny

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#because #body talks #change #change things #effect

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#been #cases #despite #failures #first

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ↗

— Jules Renard

#hundred #matter #page #quantity #talent