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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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Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
— Edward Kennedy
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
— Octavio Paz
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Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with…
— Bertha von Suttner
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.…
— Ayn Rand
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To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the…
— Albert Maltz
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Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
— James L. Brooks
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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