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“and some of it comes back
a little of it comes back
like some green in a leaf after a long
dryness”

hermit in the city is pretty good

"meanwhile" is pretty good. but what the heck is confucius juice haha

"ice for the eagles" is good

when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away--

Pg 54-55: happiness is not one’s goal in life. This obsession with happiness, it is an American obsession.

It was like film, in a way—you had to be good at noticing detail. His boss had been the one to predict kale.

How was it that I knew so much on how to think, but so little on what to do?

partial description of linguistics

what is the point of the Federal Pure Food and Drug Act story?

train test split explained simply

I don't understand the grandmother false death analogy

Now such a man would never get anywhere in this country, I think. Its never been tried,
anyway. This is in the attitude of mind of the populace, that they have to have an answer
and that a man who gives an answer is better than a man who gives no answer, when the
real fact of the matter is, in most cases, it is the other way around.

You see, if you take, the heroic age of
the Greeks, say, there were poems about the military heroes. In the religious period of the
Middle Ages, art was related directly to religion, and people's attitudes toward life were
definitely closely knit to the religious viewpoints. It was a religious age. This is not a
scientific age from that point of view

what does he mean by "There are two schools of physics. And there are the good guys and the bad guys, and it's
perfectly obvious, and it's very interesting"

It seems to me that there is a kind of independence between the
ethical and moral views and the theory of the machinery of the universe. this is debatable

The rate of the
development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much
more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.

In that sense it
makes no difference where the ideas come from. Their real origin is unknown; we call it
the imagination of the human brain, the creative imagination—it is known; it is just one
of those "oomphs."

what is the point of the "my sister had a cold..." hypothetical?

what does his alcohol proof analogy mean?

But they cannot explain the value of the thing itself.

we spent all of simone's illness in the bedroom, looking forward to when we could go back to marcelle, as nervously as we had once waited for the end of the last lesson in school, and so all we talked about was the day we would return to the chateau.