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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
-- George Santayana

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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa

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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
-- Norman Borlaug

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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley

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Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-- Voltaire

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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
-- George Wald (Life and Mind in the Universe)

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The chief cause of problems is solutions.
-- Eric Severeid

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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
-- Ben Stein

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein

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Innovation comes when there is a tender balance between chaos and bureaucracy, and not too much of either.
-- Brewster Kahle

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A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.
-- Stephen C. Johnson

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The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape.
-- James Joyce

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros

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We're all looking for answers that are proportional to the event. [Conspiracy theorists] help connect the dots for people with what feels like a coherent answer to a problem that makes them feel powerless.
-- Michael Kirk

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
-- George Jean Nathan

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

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Feelings are facts to the person experiencing them.
-- Tom Rusk

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Today in America -- the child of European imperialism -- a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today; the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and -- since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation -- the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it.
-- Jean-Francois Revel

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

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If you can't share information in simple terms with the people who will live with the consequences, then it's useless clinically. That is the universal test of meaning in clinical practice.
-- Richard Lehman (@richardlehman1)

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Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco

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Patience protects from insult as clothes protect from the cold; if you put on more as it grows colder, it will not harm you; so, too, you should increase your patience in the face of great insults, and they will not reach your spirit.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
-- Rob Gilbert

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
-- H. L. Mencken

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The role of the scientist is to search for the truth, not attempt to prove a belief. In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, the young wanderer, Govinda, is cautioned not to go looking for something but rather to find what is there ("... as a result of your seeking you cannot find"). Science has strict processes for judging what constitutes knowledge. An individual's musings constitute only the beginning, the creation of hypotheses. Testing of hypotheses, followed by peers' careful evaluation and rigorous critiques, may ultimately lead to theories. A scientific theory is not "just" a theory; it represents a very high level of knowledge acquisition. Religious belief is different.
-- Philip B. Carter (American Scientist (May 2007))

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