Quote of the day
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Zeno Vendler

Born: December 22, 1921
Died: January 13, 2004 (aged 82)
Bio: Zeno Vendler was an American philosopher of language, and a founding member and former director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His work on lexical aspect, quantifiers, and nominalization has been influential in the field of linguistics.