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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 of forces, charged…

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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. — Samuel Butler
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each… — Ayah Bdeir
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,… — Maria Montessori
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan
Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could… — Rajneesh
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny… — Susan Faludi
Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities… — Ernest King

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