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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of… — Ivan Pavlov
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty… — Erwin Schrodinger
The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public… — Evgeny Morozov
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important… — David Foster Wallace
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itselfâ€”the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that â€œdoesnâ€™t count,â€ i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic… — Ayn Rand
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous… — C.S. Lewis
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the… — C.S. Lewis
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we… — Douglas Adams
You take a really sleepy man, EsmÃ©, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his facâ€”with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s… — J D Salinger
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody… — Charles Bukowski
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons… — Sarah Vowell
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,… — Wilhelm Reich
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as… — David Foster Wallace

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