#earl

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#almost #brought #existence #forth #innocuous

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#because #clearly #european #i #intellectual

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#anyway #brash #cats #crowd #early

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh. ↗

— Dane Cook

#anything #characters #fearless #i #just

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#comes #control #cool #decided #early

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#area #bodies #bones #carries #complete

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash