May 2009
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“ “Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer (1952-2001)
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“ “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…’...”
– Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 1984
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“ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer (1952-2001)
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“ “Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to...”
– Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, 1987
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“ “Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people’s...”
– Douglas Adams, The Deeper Meaning of Life, 1983
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“ “What happens if I press this button?” — “I...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer (1952-2001)
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“ “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“ “The absurd is the essential concept of the first truth.” ”
– Albert Camus, French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist (1913-1960)
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“ “Change. It’s a wonderful thing. Look, you know how subatomic particles...”
– Tony Stonem a fictional character from the British television series Skins. Portrayed by Nicholas Hoult, the character was created by Bryan Elsley.
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“ “Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead...”
– George Carlin, American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author (1937-2008)
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“ “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” ”
– Doug Floyd
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“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be...”
– Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, 1915
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“Due strade divergevano in un bosco giallo
e mi dispiaceva non poterle...”
– Robert Frost, La strada che non presi (The Road Not Taken), 1915
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“Octavio Paz on modernity
“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I...”
– Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. (1914-1998)
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“Jean Baudrillard on history, literature and media
“The simulacrum is never...”
– Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. (1929-2007), Simulacra and Simulation (translated by Sheila Faria Glaser) (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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““… it’s better for you to restrain your impatience and wait to open the...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler, 1979.
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“Ralph Waldo Emerson on the adoration of books
“The theory of books is...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” an oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge on August 31, 1837. Published in Emerson’s Nature; Addresses and Lectures, (J. Munroe, 1849), p. 83. Also available online here. Cited in Entersection.
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“ “What really knocks me out is a good book, that when you’re all done...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“Carl Jung on psyche and matter
“Since psyche and matter are contained in...”
– Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker, and the founder of analytical psychology (1875-1961)
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“ “The story of humankind is that of work substitution and human...”
– Ismael Peña-Lopez, lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia, School of Law and Political Science cited in Does Google Make Us Stupid? by Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University, and Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project, February 19, 2010
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“ “(…) It is impossible for a human individual, for mankind, to have...”
– Jacob Needleman in All Those Shining Worlds in Parabola vol. 29 no. 2, Summer 2004, “Web of Life”, p. 25 via Jacob Needleman on the complementarity of knowledge and virtue
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“Nicholas Carr on what the internet is doing to our brains?
“Reading,...”
– Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains, The Atlantic, July/August 2008. See also: Does Google Make Us Stupid? by Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University, and Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project
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“Does Google Make Us Stupid?
“While the proliferation of technology and...”
– Does Google Make Us Stupid? by Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University, and Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project, February 19, 2010.
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“The human brain is on the edge of chaos
“Cambridge-based researchers...”
– The human brain is on the edge of chaos, Physorg, March 20th, 2009.
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“Richard P. Feynman on the conflict between science and religion
“I do...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Values” (1) (April 1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf), p.16-21. (Originally The Relation of Science and Religion (2) (full transcript) - a talk given at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum on May 2, 1956.)
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“ “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“ “Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature...”
– Erich Fromm, social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher (1900-1980), The Art of Loving, Harper & Row, New York, 1956, p.41.
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“ “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“ “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer and aviator (1900-1944)
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““You are not at all like my rose,’ he said. ‘As yet you are...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“ “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside...”
– Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
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“ “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in...”
– Mahatma Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement (1869-1948)
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“ “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and...”
– Mahatma Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement (1869-1948)
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“ “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty...”
– Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia in the Introductory Chapter to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1997, p. 6.
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“ “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re...”
– Henry Ford was a prominent American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company (1863-1947)
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“ “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath (1749-1832)
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“ “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a...”
– Dalai Lama XIV,
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“Khalil Gibran on Friendship
“Your friend is your needs answered.
He is...”
– Khalil Gibran, Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer (1883-1931) 