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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does…
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other…
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out…
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An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture,…
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach…
— Seneca the Younger
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its…
— Yiyun Li
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left…
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Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with…
— Bill Maher
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
— Alexander Theroux
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The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.
— Laozi
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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
— Laozi
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