Famous quotes containing the words single, drive and/or failure:
“Treating ‘water’ as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
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