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For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes…

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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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Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to… — Unknown Author
Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure. — Tom Ford
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it… — Pope Gregory VII
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places. — Alexander Wang
It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't… — Michelle Pfeiffer
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and… — Douglas Hofstadter
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the… — Black Francis
It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain… — Frederick Lenz
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal. — Ian Somerhalder
If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the… — Jonathan Carroll
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham

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