#urns

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#aunt #await #children #come #district

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#class #drivers #growth #inflation #main

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#into #our #our world #tolerance #turns

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. ↗

— David Eagleman

#against #backdrop #being #being human #complexities

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#abstract #displacement #feels #moment #off

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#certain #film #goes #himself #home