“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
Source: Dreams of a Final Theory
“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
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“Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal.”
Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 4, 6.
Letters, Book III
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Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
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Original: O comboio abranda, é o Cais do Sodré. Cheguei a Lisboa, mas não a uma conclusão.
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Maria Shriver (1955) journalist and author from the United States
Eamon Gilmore (1955) Irish politician
Gilmore in public after the first Lisbon Treaty referendum. Sunday Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/gene-kerrigan-gilmore-hasnt-a-shred-of-credibility-left-2666664.html
“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
