#side

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

I don't think I'm an outsider at all. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#outsider #think

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

#briefly #considered #doing #edgar #i

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#operate #outside #possible #system #whenever

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

#around #authority #consideration #destructive #employed

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#again #am #being #coach #especially

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#buyer #buyers #considered #cotton #dad

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#had #i #myself #natural #pilot