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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart… — Evgeny Morozov
There must be must be a first mover existing above all â€“ and this we call God. — Thomas Aquinas
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change… — Marcus Aurelius
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. — E. O. Wilson
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. — Ana Castillo
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may… — Jean-Paul Sartre
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. Weâ€™re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their… — Libba Bray
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. — Alice Walker
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I… — C.S. Lewis
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual… — Orson Scott Card
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is… — Neil Gaiman
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to… — Karl Marx
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop… — Terry Pratchett
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx

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