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One of your American professo...

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

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They speak very well of you"....

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can?t trust them.

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One should never mistake patt...

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

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All you ever were was a littl...

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

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Hersesy is denying the word o...

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

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After doing extensive researc...

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

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Maybe it wasn't anything remo...

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

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All our lives are symbols. Ev...

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

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Experience as well as common ...

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

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I think the easiest people to...

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

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It gripped her hand gently. '...

It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.

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That was how divorced from th...

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

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If you have any helpful sugge...

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

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Oh, they never lie. They diss...

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

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What is all your studying wor...

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

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I just took [my cancer diagno...

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

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Well," he sighed to no one in...

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

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You need to read more science...

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

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Truth, I have learned, differ...

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

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A guilty system recognizes no...

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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