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The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and…

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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…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of… — Luc de Clapiers
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to… — Pope Benedict XVI
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a… — Arthur Koestler
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away. — Bryan Kest
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman… — Djuna Barnes
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. — George Herbert
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes… — Eliphas Levi
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts… — Harsha Bhogle
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one. — Jean de la Bruyere
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive -… — Sylvia Earle
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that… — Hugh Jackman

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