Van Neck

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“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot see a chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)