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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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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the…
— George Berkeley
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
— Johannes Brahms
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to…
— John le Carre
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front,…
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the…
— Tori Amos
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
— June Jordan
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,…
— Edward Abbey
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a…
— Louis Pasteur
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…
— Martin Seligman
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
— Charles Lyell
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