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Occultism is the metaphysics of dunces.

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Life is full of disappointments. And by "disappointments" I mean "people."

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"I pensieri stretti e il viso sciolto" will go safely over the whole world.

(Scipione Alberti)

Scipione Alberti

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important.

(A Calendar of Wisdom)

A Calendar of Wisdom

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The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. Things like that I learned in the army.

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For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday. For Jenna, it was.

(13 Going on 30)

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Historical research is my drug of choice

(E. Lee Spence)

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There is a troubling weirdness about quantum mechanics. Perhaps its weirdest feature is entanglement, the need to describe even systems that extend over macroscopic distances in ways that are inconsistent with classical ideas.

(Quantum entanglement)

Quantum entanglement

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Information? Whose information? Information about what?

(Quantum information)

Quantum information

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We are now entering upon an important period of our development as a State. Our infancy as a Territorial Government has passed into history. Our early struggle as a young State of the Union has already turned the point of successful trial,and we now stand in the threshold of coming strength and power. With a territory ranking among the largest of the sisterhood, with a soil equal to the best, and a climate of a salubrity and healthfulness enjoyed by none other,with resources for the employment of industry of great variety and extent, it would seem difficult to predict for Oregon anything short of a most successful career. In fact, with a creditable management of public affairs, nothing stands in the way of our prosperity.

(La Fayette Grover)

La Fayette Grover

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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.

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We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reasons for thinking so, but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or no.

(Saint Theresa)

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Health food makes me sick.

(Calvin Trillin)

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I have served the Government of China for many years, first the Emperor, and after that the Republican Government at Nanking. I have always tried to do my best; but I must have committed errors--- though I do not know what they were---or this misfortune would not have befallen me. I have lost face.

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For children, inheritance is very, very bad, like an enemy.

(Namboku Mizuno)

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The future is history.

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Now, what we need is clever people that are not afraid of thinking deep, of getting their hands dirty, and of tackling great problems. If you feel like giving it a try and you meet some headwind howling that "everything is understood", that "understanding is not our job", or that it is "impossible" or "too diffcult", if some colleagues tell you that "physics does not deal with whys", that "understanding is just being Newtonian" or that "Thou shall not philosophize", if they throw invented norms to you, or if weaknesses and career prospects enter the discussion when the debate gets all heated up... you can always answer "Shut up and let me think!" —and get back to work.

(Pablo Echenique Robba)

Pablo Echenique Robba

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Galileo had the experience of beholding the heavens as they actually are for perhaps the first time, and wherever he looked he found evidence to support the Copernican system against the Ptolemaic, or at least weaken the authority of the ancients. This shattering experience—of observing the depths of the universe, of being the first mortal to know what the heavens are actually like—made so deep a an impression... that it is only by considering the events of 1609... that one can understand the subsequent direction of his life.

(I. Bernard Cohen)

I. Bernard Cohen

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Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore

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Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

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Fifteen years ago, I found it easy to be in favor of international capital mobility -- the free flow of investment financing from one country to another. Then it was easy to preach for an end to all systems of controls on capital that hindered this flow. Now it is harder.

(J. Bradford DeLong)

J. Bradford DeLong

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Those clothes and my clothes would look good on my floor.

(200 Cigarettes)

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Only through the dreams of Obama's father can we understand the actions of the son.

(2016: Obama's America)

2016: Obama's America

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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

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