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371 Society Quotes

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick Quotes

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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

George Dix Quotes

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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Quotes

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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Lord Halifax Quotes

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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert Heinlein Quotes

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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

George Herbert Quotes

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Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.

Werner Herzog Quotes

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The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.

Bishop Honorius Quotes

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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

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There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Kevin Kelly Quotes

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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Kettering Quotes

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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Paul Kurtz Quotes

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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Martial Quotes

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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