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- It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.
- Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
- We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free…
- The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the…
- Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at…
- We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
- The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs…
- People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never…
- All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
- All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
- Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the…
- All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be…
- But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their…
- All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
- Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about…
- Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.
- A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.…
- A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in…
- She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a…
- Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life…
- Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle