#adding

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. ↗

— John Searle

#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#extinguish #fire #more #need #water

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. ↗

— George Strait

#college #could #country #country music #discovered

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#am #being #certain #certain extent #compared

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. ↗

— Terence

#always #fate #how #least #should

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. ↗

— Ron Moody

#bits #business #canvas #colour #fill

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#thomas-hardy #men

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#bad #better #definition #escape #good

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#american #collection #composers #done #got

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human