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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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Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of…
— Julian Casablancas
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There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic;…
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It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in,…
— Jim Rohn
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There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes…
— Eric Hoffer
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I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…
— Carl Sagan
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The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder…
— Karl Barth
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Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode…
— Ralph Gibson
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…
— Thomas Berry
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The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.
— Shawn Stockman
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