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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. ...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. There is no "royal road" to geometry. most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions... Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there? The universe is made of stories, not atoms. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. [W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide? Never date a woman you can hear ticking. I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. Women are cursed, and men are the proof. SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. Warning signs that lover is bored: I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up. The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries.... A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. ...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ...the fog is rising. Now comes the mystery. Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Drink to me. Why yes - a bulletproof vest. They can conquer who believe they can. This is no time to make new enemies.Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan. GoodnightLord Byron, last words. Jefferson still survivies. Is it the Fourth? More light! Give me more light! An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. (Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. |
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