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If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. |
Bill Maher |
religion club human values abuse |
Religulous |
2009-04-06 23:07:00 |
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. |
Darwin, Charles |
evolution beauty nature |
Charles Darwin, 1859 (Closing sentence of On the Origin of Species) |
2009-02-13 04:40:47 |
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. |
Fuller, R. Buckminster |
change innovation |
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2009-01-18 12:13:42 |
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How peaceful life would be without love, how safe, how tranquil. And how dull. |
(movie 'The Name of the Rose') |
love peace |
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2008-11-19 11:22:14 |
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Faith is the path of least resistance. |
(movie 'Match Point') |
faith |
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2008-11-19 11:18:23 |
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The amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change. |
(unknown) |
change complexity |
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2008-11-19 11:14:29 |
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Freedom is not 'choosing between black and white', but to avoid such predetermined choice. |
(unknown) |
freedom choice |
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2008-11-19 11:11:54 |
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Theories are cheap; proof is precious. |
(unknown) |
theory proof |
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2008-11-19 11:11:20 |
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Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. |
(unknown) |
silence |
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2008-11-19 11:10:43 |
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The possible ranks higher than the actual. |
Heidegger, Martin |
possibility |
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2008-11-19 02:17:45 |
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To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. |
Sa'di |
point of view |
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2008-11-18 10:56:24 |
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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. |
Dostoevsky |
love humanity egoism |
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2008-11-18 10:54:42 |
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Beauty is only a light switch away. |
(unknown) |
beauty imagination |
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2008-10-31 10:49:10 |
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If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking. |
(movie 'Closer') |
love |
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2008-08-21 11:51:33 |
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They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game. |
Laing, R. D. |
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Knots |
2004-03-06 13:36:38 |
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know. |
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2004-03-06 13:35:47 |
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Stupid ideas seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. |
(unknown) |
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2004-03-06 12:36:30 |
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Cestujúci blázon je lepší než sediaci mudrc. |
(Mongolské príslovie) |
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2004-02-22 08:18:49 |
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Suusan tsetsnees yavsan teneg deer. |
(unknown) |
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Mongolian saying |
2004-02-22 08:18:02 |
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Kým je tvoj kôň silný, je čas cestovať a poznávať svet. |
(Mongolské príslovie) |
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2004-02-22 08:16:50 |
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If you must make a choice you have already strayed from the path. |
(unknown) |
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Buddhist teaching |
2004-02-20 03:04:41 |
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I have often thought morality consists solely in the courage of making a choice. |
Blum, Leon |
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2004-02-20 03:03:48 |
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Jeden pes zje jednu kosť za jeden den. Potom koľko psov zje koľko kostí za koľko dní? |
(unknown) |
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2004-02-12 06:55:57 |
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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like nobody is watching. |
(unknown) |
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2004-02-04 07:42:33 |
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May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and understanding into wisdom. |
Dijkstra, Edsger W. |
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2004-01-07 16:24:59 |
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