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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary…

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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
Reductionism is merciless.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

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Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the… — John Austin Baker
While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads… — David Buss
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. — Ned Rorem
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist… — Henry David Thoreau
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are… — Ariel Gore
And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way… — Theodore Roosevelt
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The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. — Stephen King
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways. — Jennifer Crusie
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

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