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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary…

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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
Reductionism is merciless.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. — Thomas Huxley
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded… — Anaxagoras
One never perishes through anybody but oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — Unknown Author
One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in… — Milton Steinberg
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. — George Orwell
From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of… — Charles Spurgeon
We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. — Robert Browning

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