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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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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
— Orlando Bloom
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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ...…
— Henri Poincare
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each…
— Thornton Wilder
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Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under…
— James Hansen
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
— Ingmar Bergman
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it
— Naomi Watts
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton,…
— Paul McCartney
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Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body…
— Marva Dawn
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After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
— Gloria Swanson
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The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
— Thomas Beecham
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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very…
— Guy Murchie
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