Mutual

Famous quotes containing the word mutual:

    Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. The process of justification is the delicate one of making mutual adjustments between rules and accepted inferences; and in the agreement achieved lies the only justification needed for either.
    Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)