#bse

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. ↗

— Mos Def

#followers #freaks #me #obsessive #out

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#consciousness #content #course #effects #hence

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. ↗

— David Blaine

#houdini #i #i always #kid #obsessed

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. ↗

— David Blaine

#i #idea #isolation #obsessed

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fact #obsession #other #parts #sex

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #history #however #into

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. ↗

— David Dinkins

#exactly #i #make #observation #things