"How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

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“When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”
“God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.”
“Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.”
“I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.”
“Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.”

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“Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.”
“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.”
“To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.”

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