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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
 
In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.
 
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.
 
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
 
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 
 
There are more copies than originals among people.
 
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
 
Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.
 
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.
 
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
 
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
 
Don't cut what you can untie.
 
You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
 
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
 
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
 
We are constantly engaged in constructing a world, both physical and psychic, and the construction is guided by hypotheses derived from experience.
 
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
 
Biological communities are systems of interacting components and thus display characteristic properties of systems, such as mutual interdependence, self-regulation, adaptation to disturbances, approach to states of equilibrium, etc.
 
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
 
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
 
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