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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. ↗

— Robert Quine

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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#bump #describes #essential #human #investigates

Language is a social art. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#language #social

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. ↗

— Quintilian

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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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To be is to be the value of a variable. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#variable

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

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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