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- Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto…
- The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in…
- The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying…
- Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self
- Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people…
- Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the…
- To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt