#curiosities

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. ↗

— John Aubrey

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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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