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Rules of Order state that ... ...

Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation .... but No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to become the majority.

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They just hate it when people ...

They just hate it when people make love. And then they'll go to a fistfight where somebody's really hurt and all covered with bloodand they'll just love that. Or a war and stuff like that. They're all mixed up and they're trying to take it out on you so you get mixed up too.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

The intelligence of the mind c...

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

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If you don't generalize you do...

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

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If you have a high evaluation ...

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

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The only zen thoughts you can ...

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

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Science values static patterns...

Science values static patterns.

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Today we are living in an inte...

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

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We must understand that when a...

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.

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Objects are inorganic and biol...

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

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Communism and socialism, progr...

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Robert Pirsig 226 quotes

Only social patterns can contr...

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

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It's better to live with a sad...

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

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Substance is a subspecies of v...

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a 'stable pattern of inorganic values.' The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

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A thing that has no value does...

A thing that has no value does not exist.

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Between the subject and the ob...

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

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Within a Metaphysics of Qualit...

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

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Morality is not a simple set o...

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

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The only difference between ca...

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word 'cause' implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of 'value' is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that 'cause' is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles 'prefer' to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute

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Science probes; it does not pr...

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

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