Famous quotes containing the words delete, previous and/or word:
“Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that usually rather. Safe generalizations are quite boring.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)
“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“There is that in meI do not know what it isbut I know it is in me ...
I do not know itit is without nameit is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol ...
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or deathit is form, union, planit is eternal lifeit is Happiness.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)