Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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Willard van Orman Quine
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato’s beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam’s razor.
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William Pitt the Younger
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Gottfried Leibniz
But when a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for random.
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Wolcott Gibbs
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind… Where it all will end, knows God!
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Stanislaw Ulam
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
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Bill Nye
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
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J B S Haldane
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.
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H L Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Thomas Merton
The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.