Andrew

“that “meaning” in these traditions has very little to do with what people find meaningful in their lives.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

“No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman

“Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

“I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is an American, and he is one of our longest-staying inmates. He committed a murder. He is quite insane.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman