User:Uroshnor

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The following are some very meaningful quotes (to me) which I believe will tell you who I am better than a short bio-blurb. I have chosen them carefully:

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. –-Edward Gibbon

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. –-Henry David Thoreau

Intelligent practice is not a step-child of theory. –-Gilbert Ryle

Efficient practice precedes the theory of it. –-Gilbert Ryle

The Concept of Mind is one of those books that are often cited by people who haven't read it but read about it, and think they know what is in it. They have read that it epitomizes two woefully regressive schools of thought that flourished unaccountably in mid-century but are now utterly discredited: Ordinary Language Philosophy and Behaviorism. Yes, and imbibing alcohol will lead you inexorably to the madhouse and masturbation will make you go blind. Don't believe it. –-Daniel Dennett

He who instructs ability and promotes well-being is as truly a father as the one who begets. –-William Durant

One of the first duties of man is not to be duped, to be aware of his world; and to derive the significance of human experience from events that never occurred is surely an enterprise of doubtful value. –-Carl Becker

Everything to excess. Moderation is for monks. –-Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough For Love

In my beginning is my end. –-T.S. Eliot