If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing
- -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
+ -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
[Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
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-Of course, there are ceases where only a rare individual will have the
+Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the
vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a
system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
- -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
+ -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
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Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and
that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
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[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
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I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
to be refuted by experience.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
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It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death
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"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
to be "True".
-
+%
+LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with
+autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to
+the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their
+own.
+ -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
+ (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
+%
+"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
+symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple
+I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
+even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
+"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
+ -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p390)
+%
+"You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember
+when you are old."
+ -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p413)
+%
+If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
+creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
+have one either?
+ -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629
+%
+Information wants to be free to kill again.
+ -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372
+%
+NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
+won't rise again.
+ -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
+%
+Leukocyte... I am your father.
+ -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
+%
+Your village called.
+They want their idiot back.
+ -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html
+%
+S: Make me a sandwich
+B: What? Make it yourself.
+S: sudo make me a sandwich
+B: Okay.
+ -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
+%
+Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
+have exhausted all other possibilities.
+ -– W. Churchill
+%
+As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
+instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
+unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
+of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims
+of the darkness.
+ -- William O. Douglas
+%
+One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
+in time.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
+research.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
+something.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
+die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
+wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
+ -- Cyrano de Bergerac
+%
+Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune
+to water.
+ -- Michael Z. Williamson
+%
+A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.
+%
+We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
+together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to
+live together we have to talk.
+ -- Eleanor Roosevelt
+%
+A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
+ -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
+%
+Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his
+character, give him power.
+ -- Abraham Lincoln
+%
+When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
+by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
+%
+Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
+rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
+these defects".
+ -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
+%
+No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this
+does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_
+%
+The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
+the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
+benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
+curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
+ -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
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