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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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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others…
— Francois Magendie
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If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover,…
— Sun Tzu
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The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains.…
— Sun Tzu
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…
— Sun Tzu
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
— Sun Tzu
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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence…
— Paul Davies
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -…
— James Monroe
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I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
— Neil Young
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Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
— Patricia Neal
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold…
— William Walker Atkinson
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