Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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“ Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are Mind Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light.… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
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Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone and gaze into the mind; then you notice illusion ending and reality appearing.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
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