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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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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…
— L. Neil Smith
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Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of…
— Pete Sessions
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I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never…
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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value
— Konrad Lorenz
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of…
— Pope Pius XII
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
— Robert Dale Owen
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A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their…
— Nelson Mandela
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May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others,…
— Dalai Lama
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I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life…
— John Travolta
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Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are…
— Mike Yaconelli
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The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
— Laurent Fabius
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