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- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan
- There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey
- Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a… — James Lileks
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James
- Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent… — Mishka
- Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of… — Lawren Harris
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan
- In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell
- Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have… — Thomas Boswell
- I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one… — Warren Ellis
- It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like… — Buddha