"Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate."

-- Ernest Gellner

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“Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.”
“I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.”
“Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.”

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“The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.”
“My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.”
“I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.”
“I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.”
“There is always room for coincidence.”

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