Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:
“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“There is only one real tragedy in a womans life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the it of Jones did it slowly, deliberately,... seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
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