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Famous quotes containing the word net:

    Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.
    Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

    A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated—thrown aside—a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)