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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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Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but…
— Harold Bloom
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
— David Brin
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The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination,…
— Lois Gibbs
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It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely…
— Charles Hodge
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I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress…
— Thomas Jefferson
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
— Laozi
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People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because…
— Louis Zamperini
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In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the…
— Roger Caillois
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It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
— Bela Kun
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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of…
— Josh Fox
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Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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